Oasthouse to South of Thorne Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Outbuilding. 2 related planning applications.
Oasthouse to South of Thorne Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stranded-rubblework-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Oasthouse to South of Thorne Farmhouse, Forge Hill, Bethersden, TN26 3AF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 931 401
- Coordinates
- 51.1284, 0.75881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is an 18th-century oasthouse located to the south of Thorne Farmhouse in Bethersden. It is a two-storey outbuilding constructed with weatherboarding and features a half-hipped tiled roof. Attached to this structure are two square brick oasts, which have a modillion cornice and pyramidal roofs topped with cowls and fantails. Additionally, there is one circular brick oast.
Local climate
Oasthouse to South of Thorne Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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