53 and 55, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. House. 2 related planning applications.
53 and 55, High Street
- WRENN ID
- hushed-chalk-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53 and 55, High Street, Westerham, TN16 1RE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 444 538
- Coordinates
- 51.26576, 0.06844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 53 and 55 on High Street in Westerham are a pair of 18th-century buildings, each two storeys high with one window. They are constructed of painted brick and feature a painted stone plinth. The roofs are tiled. Both buildings have 18th-century sash windows with glazing bars set in exposed frames, with the ground floor windows located under segmental arches. No 53 has a door with a bracketed hood on the left side, while No 55 has an entrance on the return that is brick and tile hung.
Local climate
53 and 55, High Street receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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