The Woolpack Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1979. Inn.
The Woolpack Inn
- WRENN ID
- far-portal-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1979
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Woolpack Inn, Beacon Street, Brookland
- OS grid reference
- TQ 978 244
- Coordinates
- 50.9858, 0.81751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woolpack Inn is a 16th-century building that originally served as a beacon-keeper's house and is now an inn. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, topped with a plain tile roof. The building has a hall that may have originally been open, consisting of two unequal bays, with a single-storey bay at each end. It stands two storeys tall on a rendered plinth and has a steeply pitched hipped roof. There is an off-centre brick ridge stack to the left and a slender projecting brick stack at the right end. The windows are irregularly placed and include two 2-light casements.
On the left side of the front elevation, there is a later 19th-century painted brick lean-to with a slate roof, which features a boarded door with a rectangular 3-light fanlight at its right end. Additional rendered lean-tos with slate roofs are present at the left end and the rear of the building. Inside, the inn showcases exposed beams and gun-stock-jowled posts, along with a common-rafter sans-purlin roof that has morticed collars, with a 20th-century roof structure added on top.
Local climate
The Woolpack Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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