Lower Champion Court is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Hallhouse.

Lower Champion Court

WRENN ID
third-foundation-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
Hallhouse
Address
Lower Champion Court, Newnham
OS grid reference
TQ 960 580
Coordinates
51.28754, 0.8106
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Champion Court is a hallhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates back to the 15th century, with extensions from the 18th century and late 20th century. The building features a timber frame that is clad with painted brick and plaster, topped with a plain tiled roof. It consists of four framed bays, along with an added 20th-century bay and an 18th-century outshot at the rear. The structure stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a hipped roof and stacks located at the left end and the center. There are five wooden casements on the first floor and four on the ground floor, with those at the right end set in a shallow two-storey bay that has been altered to include French doors. A panelled door is located in a hipped porch to the center right. Inside, the heavy frame is visible, featuring double hollow chamfered steeply canted tie beams. The building is reputed to have served as a dower house for the manor of Champion Court.

Local climate

Lower Champion Court 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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