26, 27 and 27a, Preston Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
26, 27 and 27a, Preston Street
- WRENN ID
- gilded-latch-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1972
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 26, 27 and 27a, Preston Street, Faversham, ME13 8PG
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 611
- Coordinates
- 51.31337, 0.89087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26, 27, and 27A Preston Street are early 19th-century buildings that stand two storeys tall and feature capped parapets. Number 26 has one window and is constructed of painted brick, displaying simple lettering above the first-floor window, along with an early 20th-century shop front on the ground floor. Numbers 27 and 27A are made of red brick, which was once painted, and have five windows. There is a segmental-headed passageway located to the left of centre on the ground floor. To the left of this passageway, there is a 19th-century shop front and doorway, both flanked by narrow pilasters with a moulded fascia and cornice above. To the south of the passageway, there is a wider shop front featuring a central doorway and a 19th-century casing of pilasters with a plain fascia and moulded cornice above.
Local climate
26, 27 and 27a, Preston Street 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings