Owls Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1977. Outbuilding. 1 related planning application.
Owls Oast
- WRENN ID
- half-beam-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1977
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Owls Oast, Lossenham Lane, Newenden, TN18 5QQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 839 278
- Coordinates
- 51.02023, 0.62204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century outbuilding, converted into an oast house. It is constructed of red brick with grey headers. The building is two storeys high and has a hipped roof covered in old tiles, with hipped dormers. Casement windows are set into the facade. The rear elevation is of ironstone with galleting. The building features two half-hipped gables and one conical tiled roof with a cowl and fantail.
Local climate
Owls Oast 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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