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

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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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