79 and 81, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1974. Commercial building. 7 related planning applications.
79 and 81, High Street
- WRENN ID
- half-window-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 79 and 81, High Street, ME10 4AW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 906 636
- Coordinates
- 51.33986, 0.7362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
79 and 81 High Street is an early 19th-century building that stands three storeys tall and is constructed of red brick. It features a slate roof with an eaves cornice. Above the ground floor, there are five sash windows, most of which retain their glazing bars. The entrance porch is notable for its two fluted Doric columns and two pilasters, along with a rectangular fanlight and double doors made up of six moulded panels. Number 79 has a modern shop front to the east of the doorway. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 23 to 45 (odd) and 49 to 81 (odd).
Local climate
79 and 81, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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 — 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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