Charleston Manor is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Manor house. 3 related planning applications.
Charleston Manor
- WRENN ID
- turning-clay-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Charleston Manor, Cuckmere Valley, Wealden, BN25 4AJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 520 006
- Coordinates
- 50.78548, 0.15614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Charleston Manor is an L-shaped building with a Grade II* designation. The south wing is a small 12th-century manor house, featuring two storeys and an attic. It has three windows and one hipped dormer, all faced with flints and adorned with stone window dressings and quoins. The roof is hipped and tiled. One of the original windows has two round-headed lights with a column between and shafts flanking each light, which illuminated an upper hall or solar. The other windows in this wing are modern casement windows.
The east wing consists of two parallel ranges. The southernmost range dates from the 16th century and resembles the medieval wing, featuring two windows. The northernmost range is from the 18th century, also with two storeys and an attic, and has three windows and two gabled dormers. This part is faced with flints and has red brick window dressings and long and short quoins. The roof is tiled, and the sash windows retain their glazing bars. The entrance features a doorway with pilasters, a pediment, a semi-circular fanlight, and a door with six fielded panels.
Local climate
Charleston Manor receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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