The Dover Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Dover Castle
- WRENN ID
- inner-flint-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Dover Castle, 20, London Road, Lynsted with Kingsdown, ME9 9QS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 953 623
- Coordinates
- 51.32703, 0.80273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dover Castle is a public house that dates back to the early 18th century, with an extension added in the early 19th century. The building features a roughcast exterior and a plain tiled roof. It stands two storeys high with a basement on a plinth, and has a paired modillioned eaves cornice at the roof, which includes kneelered gable ends, two hipped dormers, and stacks at both ends.
The front has a regular arrangement of five glazing bar sash windows on the first floor, set in moulded segment-headed frames, and four segment-headed sashes on the ground floor. The central entrance is a half-glazed door surrounded by a panelled surround with pilasters and a flat hood supported by brackets. To the left, there is a one-storey extension with a parapet, which includes two glazing bar sashes and a six-panelled door on the right. To the right, there is a recessed two-storey extension featuring two wood casements and garage doors.
Local climate
The Dover Castle 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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 — 3 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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