Little Chef is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1979. Coaching inn.
Little Chef
- WRENN ID
- second-chapel-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1979
- Type
- Coaching inn
- Address
- Little Chef, Canterbury Road, Dunkirk
- OS grid reference
- TR 089 587
- Coordinates
- 51.28948, 0.99575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Chef is a coaching inn that has been converted into a roadside diner. It dates from the 18th century and early 19th century. The building features painted brick and mathematical tiles, topped with a plain tiled roof. It consists of two parallel ranges and stands two storeys tall, with the upper level adorned with mathematical tiles and overhanging eaves. The roof has stacks that project to both the left and right sides.
On the first floor, there are three glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has a canted bay window to the left, accompanied by two two-light transomed windows to the right. The central entrance is a half-glazed door with a flat head. To the right, there is a single-storey hipped extension, and a hipped rear wing.
Historically, this location was significant as it housed arrested followers of Sir William Courtenay after the Courtenay riots and the Battle of Bossenden Wood in 1838.
Local climate
Little Chef sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
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