The Oast House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. Oast house.
The Oast House
- WRENN ID
- keen-barrel-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- Oast house
- Address
- The Oast House, North Street, Barming
- OS grid reference
- TQ 725 550
- Coordinates
- 51.26843, 0.4718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Oast House is a 19th-century oast house that has been converted into a residence, with some alterations made in the late 20th century. It is constructed from red and grey brick in Flemish bond, with the first floor of the stowage covered in weatherboarding. The building features plain tile roofs and has a rectangular double-depth stowage with two circular kilns on the left gable end and a square kiln at the rear towards the left end. There is a stone plinth at the base of the stowage, and the right gable end of the stowage has two hips. The kilns have a dentilled brick eaves cornice, with conical roofs on the left end kilns and a pyramidal roof on the rear kiln, all topped with cowls. The fenestration is irregular, featuring two casements on the stowage. There is a boarded door and double garage doors on the right gable end. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included for its group value and is located about 5 meters east of Broumfield on North Street.
Local climate
The Oast 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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