55, 55a and 57, Week Street is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. Shop. 6 related planning applications.
55, 55a and 57, Week Street
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 55, 55a and 57, Week Street, ME14 1QU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 760 559
- Coordinates
- 51.27552, 0.52227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
55, 55A and 57 Week Street is a timber-framed building that has been converted into two shops. It features a plastered front and a first floor that still partly overhangs, although it has undergone modern alterations. The building is three storeys high, topped with a tiled roof and a heavy wooden modillion eaves cornice. The first and second floors showcase three panels of pargetting, dated 1680, which include oval medallions, pilasters, swags, and floral vase motifs. There is a cornice between the first and second floors. Shop number 55 has one sash window on the second floor, which retains its glazing bars, while shop number 57 has a modern window on the second floor. The shopfronts have also been modernized. This building is part of a group that includes nos 53, 55, 55A, and 57.
Local climate
55, 55a and 57, Week 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 — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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