The Limes Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
The Limes Hotel
- WRENN ID
- last-paling-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Limes Hotel, 59, Preston Street, Faversham, ME13 8PG
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 610
- Coordinates
- 51.31271, 0.89012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes Hotel is an 18th-century building located at 59 Preston Street. It is two storeys high with an attic and features five windows and two dormers. The exterior is roughcast with overhanging eaves that replace a parapet, and there are recessed rectangular panels above the first-floor windows. The glazing bars are intact, and the roof is tiled.
The hotel has an impressive doorway adorned with fluted Doric pilasters, a triglyph frieze, and a pediment. To the north of the hotel, there is a shop window flanked by similar pilasters and a cornice above, although a modern window has been inserted there. A doorway leads to the bar, positioned at a splayed angle with the corner projecting over it. The north front features a curved bay on the ground floor that contains a three-light window.
The Limes Hotel is part of a group that includes No 53 and Nos 55 to 59.
Local climate
The Limes Hotel 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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