The Crown Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. Inn. 1 related planning application.
The Crown Inn
- WRENN ID
- under-gutter-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Crown Inn, Ramsgate Road, Sarre, CT7 0LF
- OS grid reference
- TR 257 649
- Coordinates
- 51.33894, 1.23991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Inn is a 16th-century inn that was clad in the 18th century. It features a timber frame covered with painted brick and has a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys tall with an attic, a parapet, and a returned hip-end on the right side. There is one hipped dormer and chimneys located on the right, centre left, and an offset projecting chimney at the left end.
On the first floor, there are two glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has three sash windows with shutters. To the left, there is a six-panel door, with the top two panels being glazed, set in a moulded surround topped with a flat hood supported by brackets. To the right, there is a half-glazed door framed by an open pediment and pilasters. The right return of the building features a two-storey canted bay.
On the first floor, three painted boards display the names of patrons who frequented the inn, many of whom were theatrical figures, including Charles Dickens. The inn is noted for its Cherry Brandy, which has been made to its own recipe since 1685.
Local climate
The Crown Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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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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