42, 44 and 44a, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1974. Public house, hotel. 4 related planning applications.
42, 44 and 44a, High Street
- WRENN ID
- weathered-chancel-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1974
- Type
- Public house, hotel
- Address
- 42, 44 and 44a, High Street, ME10 4PB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 907 636
- Coordinates
- 51.33988, 0.7374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building on High Street, Sittingbourne, is a three-story block built in 1708 by Robert Jeffs, originally known as Rose Place. It later became the Rose Inn, described in Hasted's "History of Kent" as the most impressive inn in the kingdom, offering exceptional entertainment. In 1825, the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria were guests, leading to the building's renaming as the Royal Victoria Hotel. Its function as a hotel ended when the railway diminished Sittingbourne’s role as a coaching station on the Dover Road.
The building is constructed of brown brick with red brick window dressings, capped by a tiled roof and a wooden cornice with modillion details and consoles beneath some of the modillions. There are six sash windows on the upper floors, most retaining their original glazing bars. A stone plaque between the first and second floors features a depiction of a red rose, the letters "RI", and the date 1708. The ground floor now has modern shop fronts.
Nos 30 to 62 (even) form a group.
Local climate
42, 44 and 44a, 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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