Faversham Borough Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Council offices. 4 related planning applications.

Faversham Borough Council Offices

WRENN ID
far-railing-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 August 1972
Type
Council offices
Address
Faversham Borough Council Offices, 15-17, Preston Street, ME13 8NZ
OS grid reference
TR 016 611
Coordinates
51.31412, 0.89143
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Faversham Borough Council Offices, located at 1 Preston Street, were built around 1840 and consist of two sections. The northern section slightly projects forward and features two storeys and an attic with seven window bays. The southern section has two storeys and three window bays. The building has a slate roof with three segmental-headed dormers and overhanging eaves supported by paired brackets. The front is made of red brick, with two round-headed windows in the northern section above a prostyle porch. This porch is supported by two Ionic columns and two Ionic pilasters at the ends, which hold up an entablature. The windows do not have glazing bars and feature rubbed brick voussoirs with stuccoed keystones. There is a string course above the ground floor windows. Nos 7 to 19A, which are consecutive, form a group with this building.

Local climate

Faversham Borough Council Offices 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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