Singleton Manor is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. A C19 Manor house. 6 related planning applications.
Singleton Manor
- WRENN ID
- bitter-flagstone-larch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Manor house
- Period
- C19
- Address
- Singleton Manor, Bucksford Lane, Great Chart with Singleton, TN23 4TY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 988 416
- Coordinates
- 51.13954, 0.84166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Singleton Manor is a 16th century or earlier timber-framed building with a tiled roof. The entrance front on the north-west side features plaster infilling on the first floor, while the ground floor has been rebuilt in red brick. The end window bays project with hips above, and it is likely that their first floors once overhung on bressummers, which have now been underbuilt in brick. A crow-stepped brick chimney breast is present. Between this chimney and the south-westernmost window bay, there is a window consisting of three tiers of five lights with wooden mullions and transoms.
Towards the north-east end, there is a small two-storey gabled projection that contains a porch on the ground floor. This porch has an archway with an obtusely-pointed head and carved spandrels, while the first floor oversails above a cove and features a small oriel window with a cover beneath it. There are two additional windows of five lights located between the porch and the chimney breast, along with six casement windows, some of which have early 19th century Gothic glazing. The building has two storeys and attics, including one gabled dormer.
The garden front on the south-east side is half H-shaped. The north-east arm of this half-H has its first floor oversailing and is faced with stone rubble, topped by a narrow tile-hung gable and a pentice to the north-east. The south-west arm of the half-H is tile-hung with a hip roof and was likely added later. The house retains its complete moat. Inside, there is a late 16th century plaster ceiling and six carved relief heads over the fireplace, which are similar to those found at Godinton and Court Lodge.
Local climate
Singleton Manor sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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