Oast Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1986. A C17 House.

Oast Cottage

WRENN ID
weathered-marble-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 1986
Type
House
Address
Oast Cottage, Hernhill
OS grid reference
TR 051 607
Coordinates
51.30921, 0.94175
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oast Cottage is a house that dates back to the 16th century and was refaced in the 17th century. It features a timber frame that is clad with painted brick and has a plain tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a plat band and five pilaster strips, and has a half-hipped roof. There are four wooden casements on each floor, and entry is through a boarded door located in the rear elevation.

Local climate

Oast Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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