The Guildhall is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. Guildhall.
The Guildhall
- WRENN ID
- seventh-steeple-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1975
- Type
- Guildhall
- Address
- The Guildhall, 42, the Bayle, CT20 1SQ
- OS grid reference
- TR 230 360
- Coordinates
- 51.07996, 1.18349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guildhall, located at No. 42 on The Bayle in Folkestone, is a mid-19th century building. It is constructed of white brick, with the ground floor colorwashed. The roof is tiled and features a modillion cornice. The building has long and short quoins.
The front elevation includes five sash windows set in moulded architraves with verticals only. There is a round-headed blank window at the corner. The elevation facing the Parade has three sash windows, also set in moulded architraves with verticals only. The ground floor features round-headed windows arranged in arcading, with a keystone above. A round-headed doorcase is located at the corner, topped by a frieze with a vitruvian scroll design.
The Guildhall is part of a group with Nos. 26 to 40 (even), The Battery, and the statue in the grounds of The Battery.
Local climate
The Guildhall receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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