56, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. House.
56, High Street
- WRENN ID
- odd-bracket-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TQ 758 555
- Coordinates
- 51.27233, 0.51949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 High Street is an 18th-century building that stands three storeys tall and is constructed of red brick. It features a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof and a parapet. The glazing bars above the ground floor are intact. The building has a 19th-century shop front and a passage for vehicles that runs through to the southwest. Nos. 55 to 57, which are consecutive, form a group with this building.
Local climate
56, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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