Bull Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1977. Oast house, house pair. 1 related planning application.
Bull Oast
- WRENN ID
- young-obsidian-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1977
- Type
- Oast house, house pair
- Address
- Bull Oast, East Street, Hunton, ME15 0RB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 728 491
- Coordinates
- 51.21564, 0.47369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull Oast is a mid-19th century oast house, now converted into a pair of houses. It is located in Hunton on the west side of East Street. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with weatherboarding to the gable ends of the stowage and long-and-short stone quoins. It features a stone eaves band to the kilns and a slate roof to the stowage, with a plain tile roof to the kilns.
The stowage is rectangular and built at a right angle to the road, with three circular kilns on each of the long sides, set back from the gable ends. The stowage is three storeys high, while the kilns are now two storeys. It has a hipped roof to the stowage and conical roofs to the kilns, each topped with a cowl. A recessed, paned two-light casement window with splayed stone lintels and keystones is positioned on each floor, between the kilns and the front gable end. More recent 20th century casement windows are present on the road side of each kiln. The gable end of the stowage features a central loading door and frieze windows, which have been replaced with 20th century windows. An eaves pulley is located in the centre of the gable end. A panelled door is centrally positioned on the right kiln. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bull Oast 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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