Old Workhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1986. Workhouse.
Old Workhouse
- WRENN ID
- first-merlon-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1986
- Type
- Workhouse
- Address
- Old Workhouse, Workhouse Road, Throwley
- OS grid reference
- TQ 993 545
- Coordinates
- 51.25507, 0.85584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Workhouse is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features a timber frame that is underbuilt with red brick and weatherboarding, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building consists of two parallel ranges and is two storeys high, with stacks projecting at both the left and right ends. On the first floor, there are four wooden casements, while the ground floor has three casements and a half-glazed door to the left, situated in a gabled porch. The rear range is the earlier of the two and has a half-hipped roof.
Local climate
Old Workhouse 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
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