2-6, PALACE AVENUE (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Commercial. 4 related planning applications.

2-6, PALACE AVENUE (See details for further address information)

WRENN ID
late-quoin-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 1974
Type
Commercial
Address
2-6, PALACE AVENUE (See details for further address information), 4-8, Lower Stone Street
OS grid reference
TQ 761 556
Coordinates
51.27234, 0.52451
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century building block located on Lower Stone Street, with an additional frontage on Palace Avenue. It comprises three storeys and originally had six windows facing Lower Stone Street and two facing Palace Avenue. The exterior is stuccoed and features a modillion cornice and a panelled parapet. The original glazing bars remain above the ground floor. Two small square bay windows are present on the first and second floors. Other windows have moulded architraves, with one featuring a pediment. Later 19th-century shop fronts have been added. Numbers 2 to 8, including those on Palace Avenue, are designated as a group.

Local climate

2-6, PALACE AVENUE (See details for further address information) 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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