20, Abbey Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1970. House.

20, Abbey Street

WRENN ID
dusk-steeple-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1970
Type
House
Address
20, Abbey Street, Faversham
OS grid reference
TR 017 616
Coordinates
51.31843, 0.89386
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 20 Abbey Street is an early 19th-century building that has a façade added to a 17th-century structure. It stands three storeys tall and features two windows. The exterior is made of painted brick and includes a parapet and a tiled roof. The glazing bars are intact. The doorway is framed by a moulded architrave with a frieze and a projecting cornice, leading to a door with six moulded panels. This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 14 to 32 Abbey Street.

Local climate

20, Abbey Street 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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