The Bear Inn Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1982. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Bear Inn Public House
- WRENN ID
- over-chimney-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1982
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bear Inn Public House, 3, the Market Place, Faversham, ME13 7AG
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 613
- Coordinates
- 51.31588, 0.89089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bear Inn Public House is a late Victorian building located in the Market Place. It features a red brick exterior with stone dressings and has a hipped clay tiled roof. The structure is two storeys high, with two stone-framed cross casements on the first floor and one three-light window below, next to a door that has a tall oblong fanlight in a stone surround.
Inside, there are two separate timber-framed buildings, with the earlier one dating back to the medieval period located towards the front. This section rests on a deep flint-walled basement that includes stone dressings and part of a pointed-arched doorway. A brick barrel-vaulted storage area has been added, likely in the early 18th century. Some beams are visible in the upper part of the house. The back building is L-shaped and probably dates from the 16th century. Although the roof is inaccessible, it features jowled posts and arched braces. A large chimney stack with an inglenook appears to have been inserted, and the main beam of the back parlour runs into the brickwork. The interior also includes some attractive Victorian painted glass doors.
Local climate
The Bear Inn Public House 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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