Backs House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. A C17 House.
Backs House
- WRENN ID
- mired-sandstone-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Backs House, 52a, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 903 645
- Coordinates
- 51.34795, 0.73259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Backs House is a 17th-century timber-framed building located on the east side of High Street in Milton Regis. It is named after Humphrey Back, who owned it around 1688. The house originally featured an open arcade of timber work on the ground floor, as noted in the Archaeologia Cantiana. The timber framing is visible on the sides, with plaster infilling on the first floor and brick infilling below, while the front is plastered and painted to imitate timbering. The first floor overhangs on a bressumer supported by brackets. The building has two storeys and a tiled roof with two hips. On the first floor, there are three casement windows, and below, there is a small bay with a modern shop window and three original windows with depressed heads, although these have plate glass inserted. The doorcase features a fanlight with a depressed head. Backs House is part of a group that includes Nos 52 to 76 (even), 80 to 104 (even), 104A, and 110.
Local climate
Backs House 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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