32 Earl Street is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1989. Club premises. 8 related planning applications.
32 Earl Street
- WRENN ID
- under-casement-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1989
- Type
- Club premises
- Address
- 32 Earl Street, ME14 1PS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 759 558
- Coordinates
- 51.27493, 0.52137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
32 Earl Street is a club building dating from 1883. It is constructed of ashlar, with the front of the ground floor painted. The roof is concealed behind a parapet, and has clerestory lights to the central span. The building is in an Italianate style.
The building is symmetrical with a four-bay front, and has three storeys and a basement. The ground floor has a rusticated round-headed doorway to the right, featuring a human mask in the keystone, and three windows to the left. The bays are divided by pilasters with large fluted consoles supporting a dentilled cornice. Above this is a balcony with an ornate wrought iron balustrade to the first floor. The first and second floors have a 1:2:1 bay arrangement, with a moulded string course at the second floor level. A dentilled cornice and balustraded parapet with a pedimental centrepiece top the building, the tympanum carved with two shields surrounded by foliage. Tall, round-headed first floor windows have moulded architraves, keystones, and imposts. The ground and second floor windows are 19th-century sash windows with no glazing bars, whilst the first floor windows are French casements. A stone inscription on the central pier reads "This stone was laid February 9th 1883" but the name is obscured by the balustrade.
The interior has not been inspected, but may contain original club fixtures and features. According to Kelly’s Directory of 1927, the building was the premises of the Mid-Kent Conservative Club.
Local climate
32 Earl 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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