Oast House Cottage and Weavers is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. A C17 House.

Oast House Cottage and Weavers

WRENN ID
winter-mantel-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1987
Type
House
Address
Oast House Cottage and Weavers, Hunton
OS grid reference
TQ 723 507
Coordinates
51.23019, 0.46764
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oast House Cottage and Weavers is a house that was originally an oasthouse, dating from the early 17th century, with a wing dated 1623. It was converted to an oasthouse in the 19th century and restored in the 1980s. The building features a timber frame with chequered red and grey brick on the ground floor of the main range, while the first floor is rendered. The cross-wing has a ground floor of red brick in Flemish bond and exposed framing with plaster infilling on the first floor. The rear section is stone on the ground floor and weatherboarded above, topped with plain tile roofs.

The main range consists of approximately three timber-framed bays, with a cross-wing to the right that also has three timber-framed bays and projects to the rear. There is a stair turret at the angle between the main range and the wing. A timber-framed section, possibly with a core from the 16th century or earlier, is at right angles to the rear of the wing and is parallel to the stair turret. The main range and wing are both two storeys high, with the wing also having an attic. The attic gable jetties on carved brackets at the front and rear, featuring carved pendants at the ends of the tie-beams. The rear tie-beam is carved, while the front beam, bargeboards, and pendants were formerly carved but are now plain. The stair turret has carved bargeboards and a tie-beam.

The building has an irregular arrangement of four windows: two 2-light casements and one 3-light window in the main range, along with a 12-light canted mullioned-and-transomed oriel window from the 20th century in the wing, which reuses 17th-century mortices. There is a boarded door with a flat bracketed hood beneath the stack and another boarded door with a cambered head at the centre of the gable end of the wing. The interior features exposed framing, and a former bargeboard is embedded in the wall of the wing.

Local climate

Oast House Cottage and Weavers receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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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