1, Chalk Road is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
1, Chalk Road
- WRENN ID
- sharp-stair-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1, Chalk Road, DA12 4XE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 670 730
- Coordinates
- 51.43189, 0.40109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century cottage, traditionally identified as the location where Charles Dickens and Kate Hogarth spent their honeymoon in 1836. The two-storey building is faced with weatherboarding and has a tiled roof. It features two sash windows with original glazing bars. The door is set within a doorcase with a small flat hood supported on brackets, and is a four-panelled design. Above the door is a tablet bearing a mask of Charles Dickens and the inscription "Charles Dickens, Born 1812, Died 1870 spent his honeymoon in this house (1836). Here also were written some early chapters of 'Pickwick'."
Local climate
1, Chalk Road 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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