53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. House. 2 related planning applications.
53, High Street
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-stone-hemlock
- 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
- House
- Address
- 53, High Street, Sandgate, CT20 3AH
- OS grid reference
- TR 204 351
- Coordinates
- 51.07361, 1.14591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 on High Street in Sandgate is a 18th-century building that stands two storeys tall and features weatherboarding on the upper part of its front elevation, which is faced with brick. It has a hipped tiled roof with a parapet that includes stone coping. The front has two sash windows with intact glazing bars, and a carriage lamp is positioned between them. On the right side, there is an early 19th-century doorcase that has a flat hood supported by brackets, pilasters, panelled reveals, and a rectangular fanlight above the door. The left side has a shop door with a rectangular fanlight, and the roof has three hips on the rear elevation.
This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 23 to 39 (odd), a cottage located behind No. 39, and Nos. 41 to 65 (odd), which includes 43A, 45A, 55A, and 61A. Nos. 31 to 37 are noted as buildings of local interest.
Local climate
53, High Street receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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