40, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1973. House.

40, High Street

WRENN ID
shifting-chamber-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Folkestone and Hythe
Constituency
Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 1973
Type
House
Address
40, High Street, New Romney
OS grid reference
TR 064 248
Coordinates
50.9859, 0.93967
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 40 High Street is an 18th-century building located to the rear of Walter House. It has two storeys, with the ground floor featuring a mix of red brick and rendered surfaces. The first floor is tile-hung, and the building has a tiled roof with a tile-hung gable on the left side. There are two casement windows and two simple doorcases. This property, along with Nos 38 and 40 St John's Priory and Nos 46 and 48, is part of a group of buildings.

Local climate

40, High Street 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.

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