Preston Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Vicarage. 4 related planning applications.
Preston Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- frozen-granite-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- Preston Vicarage, Preston Lane, Faversham, ME13 8LG
- OS grid reference
- TR 016 608
- Coordinates
- 51.31063, 0.8921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Preston Vicarage is a building with an 18th century front that incorporates an earlier core. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring four windows and two dormers. The structure is made of red brick and has an eaves cornice and a tiled roof. The glazing bars are intact, and the ground floor windows have cambered head linings. The doorway is framed by a moulded architrave surround with a flat hood supported on brackets, and it features a door with six fielded panels. There is a 19th century addition at the west end. Preston Vicarage, St Catherine's Church, and the wall surrounding them form a group.
Local climate
Preston Vicarage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 4 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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