Church Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. Oast house. 1 related planning application.
Church Oast
- WRENN ID
- peeling-minaret-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- Oast house
- Address
- Church Oast, Down Court Road, Lynsted with Kingsdown, ME9 0AS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 925 586
- Coordinates
- 51.29422, 0.76097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church Oast is a mid-19th century oast house, converted to residential use. It comprises a two-story timber-framed and weatherboarded granary with square oasts at either end. The oasts have pyramidal roofs topped with wooden cowlings featuring winders. The granary has irregular window openings; four wooden casements on the first floor, three on the ground floor, and six stair lights at the right-hand end. There are also two double carriage doors to the left and right. A 20th-century porch has been added to the right return front. It is listed for its group value with the Church of St Catherine. The building is constructed of chequered red and blue brick, with a plain tiled roof.
Local climate
Church 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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