The Oast House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A C19 Oast house.

The Oast House

WRENN ID
stubborn-postern-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1980
Type
Oast house
Address
The Oast House, Pluckley Road, Smarden, TN27 8NQ
OS grid reference
TQ 887 428
Coordinates
51.15363, 0.6981
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Oast House is a 19th-century cylindrical brick building featuring a tiled conical roof with a cowl. It is attached to a two-storey brick outbuilding that also has a tiled roof and casement windows.

Local climate

The Oast House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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