Ludgate is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House.
Ludgate
- WRENN ID
- steep-clay-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ludgate, Ludgate Lane, Lynsted with Kingsdown
- OS grid reference
- TQ 936 601
- Coordinates
- 51.30771, 0.7766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ludgate is a house dating from the 16th century. It is timber framed with exposed plaster infill and features a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys, characterized by small panel framing and a continuous jetty. The steeply hipped roof includes two gabled dormers and a central stack. On the first floor, there are two five-light mullioned windows and a central six-light mullioned window. The ground floor has a continuous range of 20th-century mullioned lights. A boarded door is located at the right end of the building. There are extensive ranges at the rear.
Local climate
Ludgate sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
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