The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-wattle-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, Ospringe, ME13 0EW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 994 595
- Coordinates
- 51.29972, 0.85912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a house built in the 18th century, located in Painter's Forstal, Ospringe. It is constructed of red brick with a plain tiled roof and features two storeys above a plinth. The roof is hipped and has two stacks on the left and two on the right. The building has a regular arrangement of five glazing bar sash windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, all with box surrounds. The ground floor windows have segmental heads. The central entrance features a half-glazed door flanked by engaged Doric columns, a pulvinated frieze, and a modillion cornice. The house was built in 1792 as the parish workhouse, as noted in the Faversham Papers, No.15, 1978.
Local climate
The Old House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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