Portland House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1950. House.
Portland House
- WRENN ID
- worn-hammer-weasel
- 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
- House
- Address
- Portland House, 17, Dymchurch Road
- OS grid reference
- TR 157 346
- Coordinates
- 51.07068, 1.07785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Portland House is an early 19th-century building located at 17 Dymchurch Road. It is two storeys tall and constructed of red brick, topped with a hipped tiled roof. The façade features three sash windows with intact glazing bars. The entrance has a doorcase with a pediment supported by brackets, leading to a six-panel moulded door, where the top two panels are cut away and glazed. Portland House is part of a group with Nos 13 to 17 (odd) and Nos 29 to 33 (odd) on Portland Road.
Local climate
Portland House 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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