85 and 87, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. House, shop.
85 and 87, King Street
- WRENN ID
- rusted-zinc-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 85 and 87, King Street, Ramsgate
- OS grid reference
- TR 384 651
- Coordinates
- 51.33581, 1.42216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
85 and 87 King Street is a house and shop dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of painted and rendered brick and features a slate roof. It stands three storeys tall with a basement, topped by a parapet and a central stack. The second and first floors have glazing bar sash windows and a blank window space, while the ground floor has two glazing bar sashes and a six-panel door to the left, which has a gauged semi-circular head. The corner of the building is rounded, with a plate glass window and a blank window space on each floor of the right return, and a half-glazed door on the ground floor. This building is marked on Collard and Hurst's 1822 plan of Ramsgate.
Local climate
85 and 87, King Street 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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