Medway House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. Hotel. 7 related planning applications.
Medway House
- WRENN ID
- wild-zinc-dock
- 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
- Medway House, 81, London Road, ME16 0DU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 749 561
- Coordinates
- 51.27775, 0.50741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Medway House is a large, late 18th-century building originally constructed as the Seven Stars Hotel. It is three storeys high with a basement, built of red brick. The building has a parapet with a pediment-shaped outline above the central bay, featuring a circular arrangement of ornamental bricks within the pediment’s tympanum. Stringcourses run above each floor. There are seven windows in total, including two curved bays of three windows each on all floors; the glazing bars remain intact. The central first-floor window is round-headed, while the central second-floor window is circular. Five semi-circular steps lead to the main doorway, which is sheltered by a deep round hood with an enriched frieze and dentilled cornice, above a rectangular fanlight and four-panel double doors. A modern, neo-Georgian style addition of two storeys and three windows has been added to the south. A further ground-floor addition of two windows is present to the north.
Local climate
Medway House 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 — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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