The Oak Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1973. Pub. 3 related planning applications.
The Oak Inn
- WRENN ID
- muffled-hall-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1973
- Type
- Pub
- Address
- The Oak Inn, High Street, CT21 5AT
- OS grid reference
- TR 159 347
- Coordinates
- 51.07123, 1.08126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Oak Inn is an 18th-century building located on the south side of High Street. It is three storeys tall and constructed of painted brick. The roof is half-hipped and covered with tiles, featuring a tiled gable. There is one sash window with intact glazing bars. The pub front is modern but includes interesting cast iron figures of a lion and a unicorn fixed to the wall above.
Local climate
The Oak Inn receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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