Library and Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. Museum. 11 related planning applications.
Library and Museum
- WRENN ID
- sunken-gallery-river
- 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
- Museum
- Address
- Library and Museum, Grace Hill, CT20 1HD
- OS grid reference
- TR 228 361
- Coordinates
- 51.08179, 1.18104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Library and Museum in Folkestone was built between 1886 and 1888 by Brightwen Binyon, with the construction dated to 1887. It is a two-storey building made of red brick, featuring two parallel ranges and a hipped tiled roof. The façade includes a central pediment adorned with moulded brick decorations and a parapet topped with four ball finials. There are five sash windows with intact glazing bars, each with stone pediments above and swag moulding below. The windows are framed by moulded architraves, with pilasters flanking the first-floor windows and aprons beneath them. A stringcourse runs along the building, and there is an elaborate pedimented doorcase with brick pilasters. The Library and Museum are part of a group that includes the Former Technical Institute.
Local climate
Library and Museum 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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- Related listed building consents — 11 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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