Champion Court is a Grade II* listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. A C19 Hall house.
Champion Court
- WRENN ID
- north-chalk-umber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Champion Court, Newnham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 955 579
- Coordinates
- 51.2874, 0.8035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Champion Court is a hall house that has been converted into a residence, dating from the 13th, 15th, 16th, and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame with rendered surfaces and applied timbers, as well as structural flint, topped with plain tiled roofs. The building is two storeys high with a hipped roof that has gablets and a stack at the rear center. To the right, there is a recessed hipped two-storey extension. The main range has three glazing bar sash windows, while the extension has one on the first floor. On the ground floor, there are two glazing bar sashes and a tripartite glazing bar sash. To the left, half-glazed double doors are set in a gabled porch.
Inside, the hall house has been significantly altered, but it retains features from the 16th-century extension, including dragon beams, jetty-brackets, and a beaded ovolo moulded window, which are now all internal elements. The flint and brick cellar contains a 13th-century recess with a moulded trefoil head, evidence of a moulded hood and moulded colonnettes, which may indicate the presence of a piscina for a medieval chapel. This building was the chief manor of Newnham and was the home of Fulk de Newenham, the founder of Davington Priory in 1153.
Local climate
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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