The Oast House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A C19 Oast house.
The Oast House
- WRENN ID
- slow-bronze-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Oast house
- Address
- The Oast House, Smarden Road, Pluckley, TN27 0RE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 916 446
- Coordinates
- 51.16866, 0.74059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Oast House is a 19th-century cylindrical brick oast, featuring a cornice made of brick nogging. It is attached to a two-storey outbuilding, with the ground floor constructed of red brick and the first floor finished in weatherboarding.
Local climate
The Oast House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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