St Mary's Abbey Refectory is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1959. Refectory.

St Mary's Abbey Refectory

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1959
Type
Refectory
Address
St Mary's Abbey Refectory, Swan Street, West Malling, ME19 6JX
OS grid reference
TQ 682 576
Coordinates
51.29345, 0.41185
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Mary's Abbey Refectory is a building primarily from the 20th century, designed by Maguire and Murray, but it includes fragments from the medieval period. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a tiled roof. The first floor has a continuous window with 20 lights, while the ground floor incorporates four reused late medieval stone mullioned window surrounds.

Local climate

St Mary's Abbey Refectory receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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