The Life Boat Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Life Boat Inn
- WRENN ID
- dusk-string-ridge
- 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
- Public house
- Address
- The Life Boat Inn, 42, North Street, CT19 6AF
- OS grid reference
- TR 233 361
- Coordinates
- 51.08154, 1.18676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lifeboat Inn is an 18th-century building located at 42 North Street in Folkestone. It is two storeys tall with attics and has a stuccoed exterior. The roof is tiled and features one flipped dormer that contains a double casement window. A modillion eaves cornice runs along the top. On the first floor, there is one sash window with intact glazing bars, while the ground floor window has been altered. The left side of the building has an 18th-century doorcase with a pediment, reeded frieze, and panelled reveals. The left side elevation includes a gable and a one-storey stuccoed bar extension. At right angles to this is an early 19th-century portion that is two storeys tall, weatherboarded, has a slate roof, and features one sash window with intact glazing bars set in a moulded architrave.
Local climate
The Life Boat Inn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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