No 1 (Chancery House) and No 5, Effingham Street is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
No 1 (Chancery House) and No 5, Effingham Street
- WRENN ID
- knotted-gateway-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- No 1 (Chancery House) and No 5, Effingham Street, Ramsgate, CT11 9AT
- OS grid reference
- TR 381 648
- Coordinates
- 51.33308, 1.41784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 (Chancery House) and No. 5, Effingham Street, are a house dating from the late 18th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. The building is rendered with a slate roof. It is three storeys high, featuring moulded cill bands and a cornice parapet to the roof, with stacks positioned centrally to the right. The fenestration is regular, with five sash windows on the second and first floors, set within raised surrounds. The ground floor features two large bow windows. The central doorway has six raised and fielded panels, with the central two now glazed, above a rectangular fanlight and a heavy cornice supported by console brackets. A three-storey extension projects to the left, and a two-storey extension to the right. The property was marked on Collard and Hursts' map of 1822.
Local climate
No 1 (Chancery House) and No 5, Effingham 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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