Smugglers' Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1951. Cafe.
Smugglers' Cafe
- WRENN ID
- twisted-glass-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1951
- Type
- Cafe
- Address
- Smugglers' Cafe, 212, Canterbury Road, Birchington
- OS grid reference
- TR 303 690
- Coordinates
- 51.37412, 1.30806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smugglers' Cafe is an 18th-century building located on the north side of Canterbury Road in Birchington-on-Sea. It is two storeys high with an attic, constructed of brown brick featuring red brick dressings, quoins, and a stringcourse. The roof is adorned with shaped Dutch gables at both ends and has a wooden modillion eaves cornice. There are three dormers and a total of six windows, along with one blocked window space that still has its glazing bars intact. The entrance features a doorcase with a heavy flat hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
Smugglers' Cafe 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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