Former Drying Loft at Turkey Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Industrial building. 4 related planning applications.
Former Drying Loft at Turkey Mills
- WRENN ID
- noble-steel-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Former Drying Loft at Turkey Mills, Ashford Road, ME14 5PP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 772 555
- Coordinates
- 51.27111, 0.53912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Drying Loft at Turkey Mills is an early industrial building dating from around 1739 to 1740. It is notable for its exceptional length, although part of it is now hidden by a later building added to the south-west. This structure was originally part of the paper mills, with the top storey designated for drying paper. In 1950, the roof was lowered, the front was repointed, and a buttress was added. The building is constructed of red brick and has a tiled roof, with the ground floor projecting.
On the exposed north half, there are three tall multipaned windows to the right, while to the left, there are two tiers of three small windows. A similar arrangement originally flanked the tall windows on the right, and this configuration was repeated in the now-obscured south half of the building. The recessed top storey features weather-boarding, and the roof of the Drying Loft is of modified Queen post construction. The Former Drying Loft at Turkey Mills, along with the adjoining industrial building to the west, forms a significant group.
Local climate
Former Drying Loft at Turkey Mills 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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