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The Dukes Head, 9 Dymchurch Road, Hythe, CT21 6JB

25/1450/FHListed Building Consent (Alt/Ext)Refused
Listed building consent

Refused on 8 October 2025

1 reason for refusal

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for alterations to the barn's external fabric, particularly on the north and west elevations, refurbish existing wall vents with the addition of others (part retrospective).

Received
4 August 2025
Ward
Hythe
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated15 Aug
  3. Consult.22 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Oct

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at THE DUKES HEAD, 9 DYMCHURCH ROAD, HYTHE, CT21 6JB. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 294 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 2 weeks longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Hythe conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 127 applications across Hythe. We hold 1,106 applications in total for the CT21 postcode area.

84% of heritage applications at Folkestone and Hythe District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed alterations, by virtue of covering original brickwork with render and the number of additional vents proposed, would result in visual clutter and loss of historic fabric to the curtilage listed barn which would be detrimental to its appearance. This would give rise to less than substantial harm to the significance, setting and special architectural interest of the listed building, without any overriding public benefits that would justify the harm. The proposal therefore fails the criteria of policies HB1 and HB8 of the adopted Places and Policies Local Plan 2020 and the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
CT21 6JB
Application type
Listed Building Consent (Alt/Ext)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hythe

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 August 2025
Consultation expiry
22 September 2025
Consultation end
22 September 2025
Application expires
10 October 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (5)

scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens and SSSIs.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    4 Aug

    Listed Building Consent for alterations to the barn's external fabric, particularly on the north and west…

    This applicationRefusedListed building consent25/1450/FH
  2. 2025
    4 Aug

    Listed Building Consent for changes to the internal fabric of the building (retrospective).

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside25/1452/FH

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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