Oasthouse at Palstre Court is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Oast house.

Oasthouse at Palstre Court

WRENN ID
brooding-pedestal-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1979
Type
Oast house
Address
Oasthouse at Palstre Court, Rolvenden Road, Wittersham
OS grid reference
TQ 882 284
Coordinates
51.02433, 0.68354
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Oasthouse at Palstre Court is a 19th-century structure featuring two cylindrical brick oasts topped with conical tiled roofs. Each oast has a cowl and a fantail, which displays the sign of a rampant horse. These oasts are connected to a two-storey outbuilding that has a half-hipped tiled roof.

Local climate

Oasthouse at Palstre Court 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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