Oasthouse About 17 Metres East of Fir Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Oasthouse.
Oasthouse About 17 Metres East of Fir Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- upper-gutter-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- Oasthouse
- OS grid reference
- TQ 802 506
- Coordinates
- 51.22649, 0.58055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an oasthouse located about 17 metres east of Fir Tree Farmhouse, dating from the mid-19th century. The structure features two stone kilns and one brick kiln, with a stowage area that has a stone rear wall and gable ends, while the front is weatherboarded. The kilns have plain tile roofs, and the stowage has a slate roof. At the south end of the rectangular stowage, there are two circular stone kilns, and a circular brick kiln is set against the rear wall of the stowage. The kilns are designed with dentilled eaves and conical roofs topped with cowls. The stowage roof is hipped to the north. The stowage has two 2-light casement windows and a central boarded door on the first floor, along with a boarded first-floor door on the south gable end. The ground floor of the stowage is open, supported by wooden piers on padstones, and there is a boarded door at the left end. The oasthouse forms the southeast end of an open courtyard.
Local climate
Oasthouse About 17 Metres East of Fir Tree Farmhouse 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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