The Pest House in the Garden of Scadbury Manor to South West of the House is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. Pest house.
The Pest House in the Garden of Scadbury Manor to South West of the House
- WRENN ID
- former-marble-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1967
- Type
- Pest house
- Address
- The Pest House in the Garden of Scadbury Manor to South West of the House, New Barn Road, Southfleet
- OS grid reference
- TQ 620 712
- Coordinates
- 51.41712, 0.32869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pest House in the garden of Scadbury Manor, located to the south-west of the house, is a 16th-century building situated at the south-west corner of the west rectangle of the garden walls. This small structure served as a Pest House for travelers along Watling Street making their pilgrimage to Canterbury. It predates the main house and features a timber frame now faced with red brick and flints. The building has two storeys and a hipped tiled roof with a sprocket eaves cornice. Inside, there is a blocked-in mullioned window. Historical documents from the 1570s indicate that travelers died in the Pest House. In the 19th century, a drying floor was added, along with two stock brick circular hop kilns, which later received crenellated parapets.
Local climate
The Pest House in the Garden of Scadbury Manor to South West of the House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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