Little St Katherine's is a Grade II* listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. Residential building. 4 related planning applications.
Little St Katherine's
- WRENN ID
- tenth-corbel-evening
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- Little St Katherine's, Forge Lane, Shorne, DA12 3DR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 692 714
- Coordinates
- 51.41689, 0.43263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little St Katherine's is a 15th-century timber-framed building located on Forge Lane in Shorne. The structure features oak framing with close studding, which is infilled with 19th-century roughcast. It has a 19th-century tiled roof and is designed as a Wealden type hall house. The central hall was later divided into two storeys, with north and south bays that jetty out at the front. The north bay's jetty is intact, while the south bay has been underbuilt. Both bays are supported by curved braces on the ground and first floors. The hall has a curved eaves overhang, which is supported by two curved braces and a bracket that springs from the main post of the hall.
In the 1890s, architect Robert Weir Schultz inspected the house for owner George M Arnold, stripping away later additions to create measured drawings of the timber frame. Schultz described it as "a typical specimen of a yeoman's house of the 15th or early 16th centuries."
Local climate
Little St Katherine's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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