Foley Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. Oast house. 3 related planning applications.
Foley Oast
- WRENN ID
- sacred-bonework-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1984
- Type
- Oast house
- Address
- Foley Oast, Lower Street, Leeds, ME17 1RR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 823 532
- Coordinates
- 51.24922, 0.61109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century oast house, converted in the late 20th century. The two square kilns are constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond, featuring occasional grey brick headers. They have a diagonally dentilled brick eaves cornice and pyramid roofs with cowls. The stowage, situated to the left, is timber-framed and weatherboarded, with a hipped roof to the left and to the junction with the kiln on the right. There are a projecting red and grey brick stack at the right end of the kilns, and a rear stack to the left. A 3-light and a 2-light casement window are to the stowage. A brick lean-to adjoins the left end of the front elevation. The interior remains uninspected. The building is listed for its group value.
Local climate
Foley Oast sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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