The Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1950. Town hall. 2 related planning applications.
The Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- lesser-rotunda-thistle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1950
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- The Town Hall, High Street, CT21 5AJ
- OS grid reference
- TR 161 347
- Coordinates
- 51.07163, 1.08456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, built in 1794, is located at 1253 High Street on the north side. The ground floor originally served as an open market, featuring a carriage entrance at each end, flanked by a stone wall with rusticated stuccoed quoins. Between the entrances, there is an arcade supported by two rows of four Tuscan stone columns. The first floor houses the Council Chamber or Guildhall, which is stuccoed and has five windows, with the three central window bays slightly projecting. The centre projection and both sides of the wings are accented with long and short quoins. A cornice and parapet, complete with a pediment over the central projection, top the building, which has a slate roof and tall sash windows with intact glazing bars. A clock is mounted on brackets projecting from the tympanum of the pediment, likely added later. Inside the Council Chamber, there is a fine marble fireplace adorned with Ionic half-columns and festoons, along with a festooned overmantel above the door. The Town Hall, along with Nos 67 to 79 (odd), forms a group.
Local climate
The Town Hall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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