Oast Cottage and Attached Oasthouses and Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1978. House, barn, oasthouse. 5 related planning applications.
Oast Cottage and Attached Oasthouses and Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-sentry-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1978
- Type
- House, barn, oasthouse
- Address
- Oast Cottage and Attached Oasthouses and Outbuildings, Yalding, ME18 6BU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 691 483
- Coordinates
- 51.20961, 0.41966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oast Cottage, along with its attached oasthouses and outbuildings, is a house, barn, and oasthouse dating from the early 19th century. The house features red and grey brick in Flemish bond on the ground floor, with weatherboarding above and a plain tile roof. The barn is timber framed and weatherboarded, standing on a high red and grey brick plinth in English bond, also topped with a plain tile roof. The stowage is made of almost chequered red and grey brick, with the right half-gable being tile-hung and a plain tile roof. The kilns are constructed of brick, with slightly less common rendered brick roofs.
The house is two storeys high with a gabled roof and slightly projecting brick gable end stacks. It has a regular two-window front featuring sixteen-pane sashes, with similar windows on the ground floor. The central door has four flush panels and is topped with a flat moulded and bracketed hood. To the left, there is a red brick lean-to. The rear wing of the house is set back from the left gable end, with brick on the ground floor and tile-hung above, featuring three first-floor casements on the left side.
The barn has a half-hipped roof with slightly lower eaves and ridge than the house, a small two-light casement on the right half-gable, and a central door with six moulded panels. The stowage has a brick plinth, similar eaves to the barn but a higher ridge, and a half-hipped roof to the right. It features a louvred rectangular opening under the front eaves towards the right end, along with two smaller louvred openings just above the plinth on the right gable end. Each kiln has a brick plinth, a dentilled brick eaves cornice, and a conical roof without a cowl. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Oast Cottage and Attached Oasthouses and Outbuildings receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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