The Governor's House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
The Governor's House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-tower-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Governor's House, Cannon Street, New Romney, TN28 8BH
- OS grid reference
- TR 068 252
- Coordinates
- 50.98976, 0.94608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Governor's House is an early 19th-century building located on Cannon Street. It is two storeys high with attics and has a stuccoed exterior. The roof is tiled and features two dormers, along with a parapet that has a modillion cornice. The front has three sash windows with restored glazing bars, and the first-floor windows are fitted with Venetian shutters. There is a flat porch supported by wooden columns. On the left side, there is a three-light canted bay window on the first floor, which is supported by Tuscan columns. Additionally, there is a 19th-century ground floor extension that adds one window bay to the northeast. The listed buildings on the northwest side of the street form a group.
Local climate
The Governor's House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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