Oast Houses and Drying Shed to South of Larkins Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Oast houses and drying shed.
Oast Houses and Drying Shed to South of Larkins Farm
- WRENN ID
- woven-steeple-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Oast houses and drying shed
- Address
- Oast Houses and Drying Shed to South of Larkins Farm, Chiddingstone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 505 451
- Coordinates
- 51.18562, 0.15296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a picturesque group of oast houses and a drying shed situated to the south of Larkins Farm. The drying shed is formed from a C17 or earlier weather-boarded barn, which has a high-pitched tiled roof and an oast inserted at its north end, topped with a cowl rising through the roof. A brick link connects the barn to two oasts dating from the early to mid-19th century located at the south end. Two further oasts are attached to the west side. The oasts themselves are constructed of red brick, featuring dentil eaves cornices, tiled roofs, and wooden cowls. A pent shelter shed, partly filled in with weatherboarding, runs along the north end of the barn and around its east corner.
Local climate
Oast Houses and Drying Shed to South of Larkins Farm receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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