Dorset House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1973. House.
Dorset House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-stronghold-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dorset House, 15, Cannon Street, Lydd
- OS grid reference
- TR 042 208
- Coordinates
- 50.95114, 0.90663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dorset House, located at No 15 Cannon Street, is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys tall. The ground floor is finished in stucco, while the first floor features tile-hanging. The roof is hipped and covered with tiles. The building has two sash windows with intact glazing bars. A central doorcase is topped with a small wooden weather hood supported by brackets, and it has a panelled door. Dorset House is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 15 (odd) and No 1 High Street.
Local climate
Dorset 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings