The Ship Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Hotel.
The Ship Hotel
- WRENN ID
- muffled-flue-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Ship Hotel, 16, the Market Place, Faversham
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 613
- Coordinates
- 51.31566, 0.89071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ship Hotel is a Grade II listed building located on the south side of The Market Place. It features a 16th-century front attached to a 17th-century timber-framed structure. The building stands three storeys tall and has four windows, constructed of painted brick. It includes a parapet and string courses above the ground and first floors, with intact glazing bars above the ground floor. A carriage arch is positioned in the center, featuring double doors. Inside, there are heavily moulded ceiling beams, and one room boasts a fine ornamental plaster ceiling. The listed buildings in the Market Place form a group, and Nos 14 to 16 also form a group with Nos 1 and 2, and 4 to 12 on West Street.
Local climate
The Ship Hotel 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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