Oasthouse About 40 Metres South of Nos 5 and 6 Little Mill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. A Victorian Oast house.
Oasthouse About 40 Metres South of Nos 5 and 6 Little Mill Cottages
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-pillar-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1987
- Type
- Oast house
- OS grid reference
- TQ 742 457
- Coordinates
- 51.18458, 0.49166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an oasthouse built in 1895, located about 40 metres south of Nos. 5 and 6 Little Mill Cottages in Marden. The structure is made of red brick in English bond, with the front wall of the stowage covered in weatherboarding. It features a plain tile roof and is rectangular in shape, built at right angles to the road. The rear wall has three square kilns. The stowage is three storeys high and has a hipped roof, while the kilns have pyramidal roofs topped with cowls.
The facade of the stowage is symmetrical, with one three-light "window" at each end. Each window consists of a central black-painted louvred strip, flanked by two-light paned casements. There are boarded loading doors at the centre of each upper floor, and the ground floor is open to the front, supported by painted iron columns. A gabled hoist-hood is located at the centre of the building. The date 1895 and initials are displayed on the right gable end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Oasthouse About 40 Metres South of Nos 5 and 6 Little Mill Cottages 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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