78 and 78a, Preston Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Mixed-use building. 2 related planning applications.
78 and 78a, Preston Street
- WRENN ID
- dark-pillar-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1972
- Type
- Mixed-use building
- Address
- 78 and 78a, Preston Street, Faversham, ME13 8NU
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 612
- Coordinates
- 51.31444, 0.89124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
78 and 78A Preston Street comprise a building with an 18th/19th century front applied to a core dating back to the 17th century. The building is two storeys high with an attic, and has four windows. It features a tiled gabled roof with two gabled dormers. The front of the building is stuccoed and has a moulded cornice with dentils and an ovolo moulding. A panelled stuccoed parapet sits above the cornice, topped with capping. A clock is affixed to the front with an elaborate wrought iron bracket, projecting from the first floor of No. 78. Windows are set in reveals behind moulded frames. The ground floor has a late 19th-century cutvilinear shop front to the south, and a 20th-century plate-glass shop front to the north. The building forms a group with Nos. 75 to 78 (consec) and No. 78A.
Local climate
78 and 78a, 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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