Frensham Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Manor house. 1 related planning application.
Frensham Manor
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-marble-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Frensham Manor, Mounts Lane, Rolvenden, TN17 4NL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 855 302
- Coordinates
- 51.04177, 0.64576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Frensham Manor is a historic house located on Rolvenden Mounts Lane, originally listed as Frensham. The house was occupied by the Kadwell family from the early 17th century until 1748. According to Hasted's 'History of Kent', it was built by Thomas Kadwell between 1670 and 1680. The manor features two storeys and attics, constructed of red brick, with a hipped tiled roof that has two modern hipped dormers. The windows are 19th-century casements. In the center, there is a two-storey projection that contains a porch on the ground floor, with a room above topped by a crow-stepped gable. A chimney breast is located on the north wall, and there are modern additions at the back. Notably, Lord Geddes, who served as Minister of Reconstruction in 1919 and British Ambassador in Washington from 1920 to 1924, lived here for several years during his retirement. Inside, the manor features an Inglenook fireplace and a ceiling with chamfered beams.
Local climate
Frensham Manor sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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