Outbuilding 5 Yards South East of Wardsbrook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Outbuilding.

Outbuilding 5 Yards South East of Wardsbrook Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tall-keep-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Outbuilding
OS grid reference
TQ 687 290
Coordinates
51.03639, 0.40536
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an outbuilding located 5 yards southeast of Wardsbrook Farmhouse, dating from the 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, featuring a ground floor made of red and blue brick on the north side. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles. Access to both the ground and first floors is from the north side, which has two openings on each floor, all with diagonal mullions that are likely not original.

Inside, the building consists of three bays and has a queen-post side purlin roof. The posts are mostly gunstock-jowled, with some rounded jowled posts from the 18th century. The flooring's age is uncertain. There is a single red and blue brick kiln located to the northeast, which has a conical plain tiled roof without a cowl and vane. Additionally, there are two kilns to the southeast, which lack conical roofs and are dated 1833 on the brick. Some believe this outbuilding may have originally been a detached kitchen from the 15th century, but it appears to have been a barn made from reused materials that was converted into storage for an oasthouse in 1833.

Local climate

Outbuilding 5 Yards South East of Wardsbrook Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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