Oasthouse at Fant Farm to South of Fant House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Oast house. 3 related planning applications.
Oasthouse at Fant Farm to South of Fant House
- WRENN ID
- first-passage-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- Oast house
- Address
- Oasthouse at Fant Farm to South of Fant House, Fant Lane, ME16 8DE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 742 544
- Coordinates
- 51.26253, 0.49583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The oasthouse at Fant Farm, located to the south of Fant House, dates from the early 19th century. It is two storeys high, with a ground floor made of yellow brick and a first floor that is weatherboarded. The roof is slate and hipped at one end. The building features five casement windows and includes four oasts, each with cylindrical bases and conical roofs. This oasthouse is part of a group that also includes Fant House, a wall to the northeast of Fant House, a barn to the southwest of Fant House, and another barn to the west of the first barn.
Local climate
Oasthouse at Fant Farm to South of Fant House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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