The Royal Fountain Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1950. Hotel.
The Royal Fountain Hotel
- WRENN ID
- hidden-cobble-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1950
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Royal Fountain Hotel, 15, West Street, Sheerness
- OS grid reference
- TQ 911 749
- Coordinates
- 51.44125, 0.74849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Fountain Hotel is an 18th-century hotel with connections to Admiral Nelson, located at No. 15 West Street in Blue Town, Sheerness. This corner building features three storeys and attics, with its West Street elevation covered in rough plaster and paint. It has four dormers and a painted plinth, with four windows on each floor. The first floor showcases bow windows with panelled sash boxes and a moulded head, while the ground floor has three cambered sash windows. The front entrance is distinguished by moulded pilasters, an architrave, panelled reveals, and a Vitruvian scroll frieze, along with a grooved surround. The south elevation is made of brown brick and also has three cambered sash windows, along with a painted plinth.
Local climate
The Royal Fountain Hotel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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