Captain Digby Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. Inn.
Captain Digby Inn
- WRENN ID
- silent-parapet-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Captain Digby Inn, Kingsgate Bay Road, Broadstairs and St. Peters
- OS grid reference
- TR 395 706
- Coordinates
- 51.38464, 1.44071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Captain Digby Inn is a building located on Kingsgate Bay Road, incorporating a wing of the Bede House, which was a late 18th-century house of entertainment for visitors attracted to Lord Holland's follies. By 1809, it was known as "The Noble Captain Digby," named after Lord Holland's nephew and drinking companion who commanded the HMS African at the Battle of Trafalgar. Much of the original structure fell into the sea during a strong gale, but part of the old Bede House is included in the current building, which now appears to be from the early 19th century. The inn is two storeys high and faced with flint, featuring a crenellated parapet and a string course. It has three sash windows with intact glazing bars, with the center window projecting. The original crenellated porch has been converted into a window, and there is a modern extension at the rear.
Local climate
Captain Digby Inn 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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