Oasthouse About 30 Metres North West of Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. Oasthouse.
Oasthouse About 30 Metres North West of Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- over-mantel-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1987
- Type
- Oasthouse
- OS grid reference
- TQ 761 451
- Coordinates
- 51.17887, 0.51846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an oasthouse built in 1893, located about 30 metres northwest of Manor Farmhouse. The kilns and ground floor of the storage area are made of chequered red and grey brick, while the first floor of the storage area is weatherboarded. The roofs are covered with plain tiles. At the north end of the rectangular storage area, there are two circular kilns. The storage area is two storeys high and features a cogged brick eaves cornice on the kilns. The storage area has a half-hipped roof, and the kilns have conical roofs with cowls. The first floor of the storage area includes two two-light paned casements and a central rectangular louvred light. There is a boarded loading door on the first floor towards the right end, accessible by an external flight of wooden steps, and another loading door on the left gable end. The ground floor of the storage area has garage doors, and there is a boarded door at the base of each kiln. The brick on one of the kilns is dated "1893 G.Day".
Local climate
Oasthouse About 30 Metres North West of Manor Farmhouse 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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