The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1985. A Medieval House. 2 related planning applications.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-cinder-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Manor House, 122 and 124, High Street, Halling, ME2 1BZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 704 639
- Coordinates
- 51.34912, 0.44638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a Wealden hall-house dating to the 15th century, with significant alterations to the exterior in the early and early to mid-19th centuries. The house has brick walls; the north wing is of red brick with blue headers, while the south wing also incorporates blue headers. The roofs are hipped and tiled, with brick stacks. The north wing's front elevation features a window to the left and above a recessed doorway with a cast-iron fanlight. The door itself is made of six moulded and fielded panels. The south wing has a lower eaves line, with a dormer window in the left bay and a window above and below in the right bay. A further doorway is present in the south return elevation.
The interior retains three bays of the original Wealden hall: the upper hall bay, most of the low bay, and the front parlour. The front parlour exhibits plain, heavy joists and one bracket. A halved and bridled scarf is visible on the rear wall plate, and part of the upper section of a hall window is exposed. One end of a hall partition remains, along with a moulded dais beam. Much of the smoke-blackened hall roof is complete, including a moulded octagonal crown-post with capital and base on an ogee and hollow-moulded tie-beam. An inserted floor, likely from the early 17th century, is present within the low bay of the open hall. The building is believed to have been the main house of the Bishop of Rochester's Manor of Halling.
Local climate
The Manor House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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