Windmill Farm Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1995. Oasthouse. 1 related planning application.
Windmill Farm Oast
- WRENN ID
- cold-passage-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1995
- Type
- Oasthouse
- Address
- Windmill Farm Oast, Benenden Road, Rolvenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 840 315
- Coordinates
- 51.05344, 0.62505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windmill Farm Oast is an oasthouse built around 1800, which incorporates earlier timbers and was later extended in the 19th century with the addition of two circular kilns. The stowage is timber-framed, featuring a ground floor constructed of diaper brickwork and a first floor that is mostly weatherboarded, with some areas tarred. The roof is hipped and covered with old tiles, arranged in two ranges. The west front has two wooden shutters on the first floor, equipped with iron hinges, while the other sides have wooden casements or metal pivoting casements. The two circular kilns are built with a base and top in Sussex bond and a center in header bond. Inside, the stowage exhibits a mix of Sussex bond and English garden wall bond. In the southwest corner, there is a square kiln, pre-dating 1835, made from reused timbers and featuring sockets for diamond-shaped mullions and shutter grooves. The earlier part of the structure includes some diagonal braces and dragon ties, while the remainder of the stowage is from the later 19th century, held together with iron bolts.
Local climate
Windmill Farm 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 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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