Port Regis School is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. School. 4 related planning applications.
Port Regis School
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Address
- Port Regis School, Convent Road, Broadstairs and St. Peters, CT10 3PR
- OS grid reference
- TR 394 702
- Coordinates
- 51.38103, 1.43973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Port Regis School is a building dating from around 1750, originally intended by Lord Holland to house Anglican nuns, who never arrived. Instead, the building was occupied by several poor families connected to the Hollands and also served as accommodation for overflow guests from Holland House. By 1831, the convent was rebuilt and named "Port Regis" after the King's Gate, which was re-erected in its grounds.
The school is two storeys high and features a flint-faced exterior with stone quoins and dressings, topped with a crenellated parapet. The entrance has a doorcase set in an archway adorned with quatrefoil motifs. On the front elevation, there is a prominent three-light mullioned window flanked by battlemented turrets. The garden side also has two storeys of knapped flint with stone dressings, featuring two canted bays with three lights each, battlemented and separated by an archway. The windows are either mullioned or mullioned and transomed. To the right, a section of the building is crenellated and contains five mullioned windows, reflecting the original layout of five cells. The ground floor includes an arched colonnade and buttresses. There are extensions from 1870 and later to the right of the main structure.
All listed buildings within the grounds of Port Regis School are considered to form a group.
Local climate
Port Regis School 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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