17, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. House.
17, High Street
- WRENN ID
- blind-bronze-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, High Street, Lenham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 898 520
- Coordinates
- 51.23647, 0.71749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 High Street is a house located in Lenham, dating from the mid-19th century, though it may have an earlier core. The building features a chequered pattern of red and grey brick and has a plain-tiled roof. It stands two storeys tall on a short plinth and is topped with a moulded wood eaves cornice. The roof is hipped to the right, with the hip returning along the right side elevation. At the rear, there is a brick ridge stack. Each floor has a single glazing-bit sash window, with the ground floor window featuring gauged brick voussoirs. To the right, there is a ribbed door with a flat hood above it. A short rear wing extends to the right. The interior has not been inspected. This building is listed for its group value.
Local climate
17, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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