The Royal Star Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. A C18 Hotel. 5 related planning applications.
The Royal Star Hotel
- WRENN ID
- salt-chimney-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Royal Star Hotel, 15-17, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 759 557
- Coordinates
- 51.27351, 0.52154
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Star Hotel is an 18th-century building of three storeys, constructed from red brick. It has a tiled roof, a parapet, and a renewed wooden coved eaves cornice. The facade features eight sash windows with intact glazing bars, set in flush wooden frames. On the ground floor, there are two sashes, with a modern doorway placed between them, sheltered by a large flat hood. To the northeast of the doorway is a carriage arch that leads to the hotel yard, and a more recent shopfront. The building forms a group with Nos 12 to 17 on the High Street.
Local climate
The Royal Star Hotel 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 — 15 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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