Granary, Oasthouses and Oast Cottage at Swarling Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. Granary, oast house, cottage.

Granary, Oasthouses and Oast Cottage at Swarling Manor

WRENN ID
proud-timber-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1967
Type
Granary, oast house, cottage
Address
Granary, Oasthouses and Oast Cottage at Swarling Manor, Swarling Hill Road, Petham, CT4 5QW
OS grid reference
TR 130 529
Coordinates
51.23567, 1.0499
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The granary, oasthouses, and oast cottage at Swarling Manor were built in 1779, likely at the same time as the main house. The granary faces south and is three storeys tall, constructed of red brick with a hipped tiled roof and a modillion eaves cornice. It features windows on the right side and a central doorway on each floor, with the ground floor having a double door and a hoist above. At each end of the granary, there are two-storey window bays, which were probably added later, made of red brick with grey headers. The west window bay has been converted into a dwelling known as Oast Cottage. To the north of the granary, there are six square oasthouses, enclosed by a continuous red brick wall, each topped with pyramidal tiled roofs and revolving wooden cowls.

Local climate

Granary, Oasthouses and Oast Cottage at Swarling Manor receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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