Aughrim House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Aughrim House
- WRENN ID
- half-cupola-ebony
- 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
- Aughrim House, 57 and 59, High Street, Sandgate, CT20 3AH
- OS grid reference
- TR 204 351
- Coordinates
- 51.07362, 1.14565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses dating from the 18th century, located on the High Street in Sandgate. They are three storeys high and have weatherboarded facades. The roofs are hipped and tiled, with a wooden modillion eaves cornice; the roof of number 57 has more recently replaced tiles. Each house has two sash windows, with the central two windows being double-sashed. Number 57 features a later four-light bay window on the first floor and a three-light canted bay window on the second floor. Number 59 has a three-light canted bay window extending through both the first and second floors. The shopfronts are from the 19th century. The central doorways have rectangular fanlights and six-panelled doors. The buildings form a group with numbers 23 to 39 (odd), the cottage behind number 39, and numbers 41 to 65 (odd), including 43A, 45A, 55A and 61A; numbers 31 to 37 are buildings of local interest.
Local climate
Aughrim House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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