Myrtle House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. House.
Myrtle House
- WRENN ID
- calm-chalk-lake
- 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
- Myrtle House, 150, High Street, Sandgate
- OS grid reference
- TR 201 351
- Coordinates
- 51.07323, 1.14107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle House is an 18th-century building located on the northwest side of High Street in Sandgate. It stands three storeys high with a basement and features a stuccoed exterior and a hipped tiled roof. The second floor has a four-light casement window, while the first floor contains two sash windows. On the ground floor, there is a round-headed doorcase set within arcading, accompanied by a three-light sash window also set in arcading. The basement has been modernised with red brick and includes a modern wrought iron balcony. Myrtle House is part of a group with Nos 146-152, with Nos 146 and 152 being buildings of local interest.
Local climate
Myrtle 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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