Balcony House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. House.
Balcony House
- WRENN ID
- under-courtyard-moon
- 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
- Balcony House, 148, High Street, Sandgate, CT20 3BZ
- OS grid reference
- TR 201 351
- Coordinates
- 51.07326, 1.14114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Balcony House, located at No 148 High Street in Sandgate, is an 18th-century building that stands three storeys tall with a semi-basement, all finished in stucco. The building features a parapet with stone coping and a dropped moulded cornice. On the second floor, there are two sashes with intact glazing bars. The first floor includes a later wooden balcony. The left side of the building has a round-headed doorcase set within arcading, accompanied by two round-headed sashes also set in arcading. A flight of stone steps leads down to the street. Balcony House is part of a group with Nos 146-152, with Nos 146 and 152 being buildings of local interest.
Local climate
Balcony 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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