79, High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1974. A C18 Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
79, High Street
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-gateway-kestrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 79, High Street, DA11 0BH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 647 743
- Coordinates
- 51.44457, 0.36943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 79 on High Street is an early to mid 18th century building that stands three storeys tall and is weatherboarded. It features an old tiled roof with one dormer and a wide wooden eaves cornice that is moulded and dentilled. The original sash windows have been replaced with casements, and there is a modern shopfront. This building is part of a group that includes numbers 77 to 83 and 77A.
Local climate
79, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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