Sandgate Library is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1973. Library. 1 related planning application.
Sandgate Library
- WRENN ID
- outer-balcony-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1973
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Sandgate Library, 51, High Street, CT20 3AH
- OS grid reference
- TR 204 351
- Coordinates
- 51.07365, 1.14598
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sandgate Library, built in 1884, was originally designed as a dual fire station and reading room. It is a two-storey building featuring applied timber-framing with pebble-dashed infill. The hipped tiled roof has a square bell cote on the left side, topped with a fishscale tiled spire. The first floor includes a Scottish baronial style bartizan on the left side, which has a three-light sash window. There is a band of machicolation between the ground and first floors. The ground floor features a simple doorcase on the left side and an entrance on the right side that was designed to accommodate fire engines. The library is part of a group with Nos 23 to 39 (odd), a cottage to the rear of No 39, and Nos 41 to 65 (odd), including 43A, 45A, 55A, and 61A. Nos 31 to 37 are buildings of local interest.
Local climate
Sandgate Library 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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