Wingham Court and Garden Wall is a Grade II* listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Wingham Court and Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- half-flue-cedar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wingham Court and Garden Wall, Canterbury Road, CT3 1BB
- OS grid reference
- TR 241 574
- Coordinates
- 51.27174, 1.21252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wingham Court is a house that dates back to the 15th century, with extensions added in 1574, and it was reclad in the early 18th and early 19th centuries. The building features a timber frame that is clad with red brick and rendered on the entrance elevation, topped with a plain tiled roof. It stands two storeys high on a plinth, with boxed eaves and a hip roof on the left end, while the right end has a shaped gable. The house has iron wall ties marked with the initials W:C, a projecting stack at the right end, and a cluster of stacks to the centre left.
On the first floor, there are four glazing-bar sash windows, while the ground floor has two tripartite glazing-bar sashes and one single glazing-bar sash. The entrance door, located to the centre left, consists of eight panels and is set in a panelled surround topped with a pediment supported by engaged Doric columns. There are projecting rear wings to the main range, also featuring shaped gables. An extension to the left is a framed building with painted brick infill, one storey and an attic, which includes three hipped dormers and a stack at the rear right. This section has a canted bay with glazing-bar sashes and a bay to the right with a large tripartite glazing-bar sash. The door here has six raised and fielded panels, the top two of which are glazed, and is topped with a flat hood on brackets.
To the right, there is an 18th-century garden wall made of red brick, which sweeps down twice to about five feet and is buttressed. The wall extends east and south along the road front for about 50 yards, ending with a pier topped by a ball finial. Inside, the main range originally consisted of four framed bays with a central left cross-passage and features a crown-post roof. There is also a well located within the south wing and an attached single-storey range with a stack dated 1574. The interiors are panelled. Wingham Court served as the manor house for the Archbishop's manor of Wingham, where archbishops and notable figures of the time often resided.
Local climate
Wingham Court and Garden Wall 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 greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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