The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-ashlar-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Manor House, King Street, Fordwich
- OS grid reference
- TR 180 597
- Coordinates
- 51.29514, 1.12596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a mid-16th century house located on the south side of King Street in Fordwich. Dendrochronology conducted in 2003 indicates that the building dates from around 1556. Although it is not the original Manor House, it acquired that name due to being occupied by a family called Manners.
This L-shaped building features a timber frame with plaster infilling. The ground floor has been rebuilt in painted brick and stucco, while the first floor overhangs a moulded bressumer, which bears the initials "M.B." at its northeast corner and has a bracket at the northwest corner. The roof is tiled. The east front has ornamental timbering at the north end, with a gable that includes an attic window and a cove beneath it. There is one window above a three-light window with casements, which is situated above a hung sash window with glazing bars. At the south end of the first floor on the east front, there is a long workshop window. The northern elevation features three windows above two.
Local climate
The Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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