56, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1975. Commercial building.

56, High Street

WRENN ID
buried-pavement-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gravesham
Constituency
Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1975
Type
Commercial building
OS grid reference
TQ 647 742
Coordinates
51.44352, 0.36927
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 56 High Street is an 18th-century building that stands three storeys tall and is constructed of painted brick. It features a parapet and a dropped moulded eaves cornice. The building has two sashes with intact glazing bars, although there is a modern shopfront. Historically, this building was part of the Albion Public House. It is grouped with Nos. 55 to 59 and 55A.

Local climate

56, 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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