Woodpecker Court is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. Manor house. 1 related planning application.
Woodpecker Court
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-slate-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Woodpecker Court, 45 Wigmore Lane, Eythorne
- OS grid reference
- TR 281 499
- Coordinates
- 51.2034, 1.26439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodpecker Court is an early 18th-century manor house located in Lower Eyethorne. The building is constructed of red brick with a plain tiled roof. It is two storeys high, with a basement, and features a plinth and a moulded wooden eaves cornice to the hipped roof. Brick stacks are situated on the left and right sides. The front elevation has five glazing bar sashes on each floor, with those on the ground floor having segmental heads. A segmentally headed basement opening is located on the left side. Entry is provided by a half-glazed door with a flat hood on the rear elevation.
The interior includes stop-chamfered ceiling joists and inglenooks. Cellars contain elliptical wall recesses.
Local climate
Woodpecker Court receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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