7, Abbey Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1970. A Medieval Residential.

7, Abbey Street

WRENN ID
night-gateway-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1970
Type
Residential
Period
Medieval
Address
7, Abbey Street, Faversham
OS grid reference
TR 017 616
Coordinates
51.31795, 0.8931
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 7 Abbey Street is a 15th-century timber-framed house that was refaced in the 18th century. It retains the overhang of its first floor on a bressummer. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring one window and one dormer. It has a parapet and a tiled roof, with intact glazing bars on the first floor. There is a small shop window below, which is no longer in use, and the first floor is covered with asbestos panelling. Nos. 3 to 12 Abbey Street form a group with this property.

Local climate

7, Abbey 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.

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