Oasthouse at Bettmans Wood Farm to South West of Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Oast house.
Oasthouse at Bettmans Wood Farm to South West of Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silver-latch-meadow
- 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 Bettmans Wood Farm to South West of Farmhouse, Biddenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 829 393
- Coordinates
- 51.12431, 0.61369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The oasthouse at Bettmans Wood Farm, located to the south-west of the farmhouse, dates from the 19th century. It is a square brick structure topped with a pyramidal tiled roof that features a cowl and fantail. The oasthouse is attached to a two-storey outbuilding, where the ground floor is constructed of red brick and the first floor is weatherboarded, topped with a hipped tiled roof.
Local climate
Oasthouse at Bettmans Wood Farm to South West of Farmhouse 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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