The Plough Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Public house.
The Plough Inn
- WRENN ID
- leaning-truss-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Plough Inn, Lewson Street, Norton, Buckland and Stone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 962 614
- Coordinates
- 51.31796, 0.81511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Plough Inn is a public house dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame that is partly covered with painted brick, weatherboard, and rendered surfaces, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high, with a half-hipped roof on the left side and a hipped roof on the right, which includes a catslide outshot. There are stacks located on the left and at the right end of the building. The upper floor has four three-light wooden casements positioned high under the eaves, along with one glazing bar sash window that has shutters. On the ground floor, there is one four-light wooden casement window and boarded doors located to the left and center.
Local climate
The Plough Inn 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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