Wheel House and Donkey Wheel at Eggarton Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1957. Wheel house.
Wheel House and Donkey Wheel at Eggarton Manor
- WRENN ID
- noble-glass-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1957
- Type
- Wheel house
- Address
- Wheel House and Donkey Wheel at Eggarton Manor, Eggarton Lane, Godmersham
- OS grid reference
- TR 078 504
- Coordinates
- 51.21539, 0.97486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wheel House and Donkey Wheel at Eggarton Manor is a structure dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features a timber frame that is clad in red brick, flint, and weatherboard, with parts rebuilt in red brick. The building has a plain tile roof and is one storey high, sitting on a plinth. The hipped roof includes a partial dogtooth cornice and gablets.
Inside, the donkey wheel is notable for its original shaft, which has wide chamfers and ogee stops, while the wheel spokes are designed with thin chamfers and run-out stops. The shaft and wheel house are structurally interdependent, indicating they were built at the same time. The roof is supported by arched braces, collars, clasped purlins, diminishing principals, and windbraces.
Local climate
Wheel House and Donkey Wheel at Eggarton Manor receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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