Polebrook Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1990. Oast.
Polebrook Oast
- WRENN ID
- unlit-slate-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1990
- Type
- Oast
- Address
- Polebrook Oast, Hever
- OS grid reference
- TQ 475 454
- Coordinates
- 51.18903, 0.11007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Polebrook Oast is a building that includes stabling and storage, likely dating from the 18th century, with two early 19th century circular oasts. The storage area is constructed of red brick, featuring some weatherboarding on the west side, and has a steeply pitched tiled roof. The east front has four window openings, which include two louvred openings and two casements leading to a circular window on the ground floor. There is a brick chimney with two diagonally set flues. The west front features three cambered casements, double doors, and an external wooden staircase. The roof structure includes queen posts, staggered purlins, and arched braces, along with weatherboarded partitions. The ground floor stabling has 19th century stall partitions. Attached to the south is a single-storey wing, possibly from the 18th or early 19th century, with a hipped tiled roof and two casement windows. To the north are two early 19th century circular brick oasts that have many vitrified headers, a modillion eaves cornice, casement windows, cambered headed doors, and conical tiled roofs, which were without combs and fantails at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Polebrook Oast receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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