Oasts and Oasthouse 50 Yards East of Lower Ensden Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. A Early C19 Oast house.
Oasts and Oasthouse 50 Yards East of Lower Ensden Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- third-cloister-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- Oast house
- OS grid reference
- TR 075 556
- Coordinates
- 51.26202, 0.97327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building consists of two kilns and a storage area, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from chequered brick and features a slate roof. The structure is two storeys high with a loft, characterized by oversailing brick eaves cornice on a gambrel roof, and has pyramidal oasts on both sides, topped with wooden cowls and winders. The right-hand oast includes ventilation slats. The central gambrel roof has a flat-topped loft door to the right, along with a central gabled loft door and a pulley. The building has regular fenestration with six windows featuring metal glazing bar casements; the extreme right windows on both floors are blocked, and there is a 20th-century opening inserted to the right on the ground floor. Additionally, there are two basement windows to the right and central sliding board double doors.
Local climate
Oasts and Oasthouse 50 Yards East of Lower Ensden Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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