Oasthouse About 6 Metres North of Springfield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. Oasthouse.
Oasthouse About 6 Metres North of Springfield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- still-pediment-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1987
- Type
- Oasthouse
- OS grid reference
- TQ 739 426
- Coordinates
- 51.15694, 0.48619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an oasthouse located about 6 metres north of Springfield Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century. The ground floor is built of red brick in English garden wall bond, while the first floor is tile-hung, topped with a plain tile roof. The structure features a rectangular stowage with two circular kilns at the rear, which do not extend to the right gable end. The stowage is two storeys high and has cogged brick eaves cornices on the kilns. The stowage has a hipped roof, while the kilns are topped with conical roofs that have cowls. The building has irregular fenestration, including four small six-pane lights on the first floor of the stowage and one on the first floor of the right gable end. There are also two nine-pane lights with segmental heads towards each end of the ground floor. Access is provided by a boarded door with a segmental head towards the right end of the front and another at the right end of the rear elevation, along with a boarded door leading to the base of the kiln. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Oasthouse About 6 Metres North of Springfield Farmhouse 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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