Barn and Oasthouse Adjoining No 53 to the North is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Barn.

Barn and Oasthouse Adjoining No 53 to the North

WRENN ID
upper-pedestal-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1979
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TQ 852 390
Coordinates
51.12043, 0.64501
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century barn located to the north of No. 53 on North Street in Biddenden. The building has two storeys, with the ground floor constructed of red brick and the upper level tile hung. It features a tiled roof that has a wooden cowl at the north end. There is one casement window on the north-facing side.

Local climate

Barn and Oasthouse Adjoining No 53 to the North 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% 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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