55, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. House.
55, High Street
- WRENN ID
- high-lintel-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TQ 758 555
- Coordinates
- 51.27229, 0.51937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 55 on High Street is an 18th-century building that stands three storeys tall and is finished in stucco. It features a hipped tiled roof with an eaves cornice. The building has two windows on the first floor, each surrounded by moulded architraves and topped with cornices. The glazing bars remain intact above the ground floor. Below, there is a modern shop front. No. 55, along with Nos. 56 and 57, forms a group.
Local climate
55, High Street 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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