Bier House 30 Metres South East of Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1986. Bier house, mortuary chapel.
Bier House 30 Metres South East of Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- weathered-storey-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1986
- Type
- Bier house, mortuary chapel
- OS grid reference
- TR 011 568
- Coordinates
- 51.27523, 0.88272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bier House, located 30 metres southeast of the Church of St James, is a 19th-century structure that incorporates re-used features from the 14th century. It is built from flint and has a plain tiled roof. The north side features a boarded door, while the west wall has a blocked medieval arch. The south wall includes a re-used 14th-century traceried two-light window that originally came from the Church of St James.
Local climate
Bier House 30 Metres South East of Church of St James 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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