4, The Old High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1949. Commercial.
4, The Old High Street
- WRENN ID
- twisted-buttress-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1949
- Type
- Commercial
- OS grid reference
- TR 229 360
- Coordinates
- 51.08019, 1.18225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 The Old High Street is an early 19th-century building that stands three storeys tall and features an arcade that extends across the pavement. It is constructed of red brick and has five sash windows, although the glazing bars are missing. The first-floor windows have segmental heads. The ground floor arcade is supported by six Tuscan columns, and there is a modillion cornice above the arcade. This cornice continues around the George Lane front on the east side.
Local climate
4, The Old High Street 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
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