The Hole in the Wall Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Hole in the Wall Inn
- WRENN ID
- leaning-rampart-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Hole in the Wall Inn, 75, Preston Street, Faversham, ME13 8PA
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 612
- Coordinates
- 51.31423, 0.89112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hole in the Wall Inn is a 16th-century timber-framed building located on Preston Street. It has been altered in the 18th century but still features the overhang of its first floor supported by a bressummer. The inn has 19th-century and later shop fronts, including an early 19th-century bay window at the south end. The upper part of the building is plastered, and it has a cornice and parapet. The roofs are tiled, and there are modern casement windows. The building is two storeys high and has four windows. The Hole in the Wall Inn is part of a group with Nos 73 to 78, which are consecutive.
Local climate
The Hole in the Wall Inn 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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