Phoenix Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Commercial, offices. 3 related planning applications.
Phoenix Chambers
- WRENN ID
- hidden-tower-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- Commercial, offices
- Address
- Phoenix Chambers, 6-8, Market Buildings, ME14 1HP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 759 557
- Coordinates
- 51.27403, 0.52178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Phoenix Chambers is a mid-19th century building located on the southwest side of Market Buildings. It stands two storeys tall, featuring a first floor made of stock brick and a ground floor finished in rusticated stucco. The building has a parapet with stone coping and eight sash windows without glazing bars. A moulded stringcourse runs along the building, which widens to form a central hood above the doorcase. This hood is adorned with a statue of a phoenix amidst flames on the cornice, supported by three console brackets. The entrance includes a rectangular fanlight and two folding doors.
Local climate
Phoenix Chambers 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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