Stables 20 Metres West of Heel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1986. Stables.
Stables 20 Metres West of Heel Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- floating-thatch-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1986
- Type
- Stables
- Address
- Stables 20 Metres West of Heel Farmhouse, ME13 0JH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 975 530
- Coordinates
- 51.24247, 0.82958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a stable, which was once used as an oast, located 20 metres west of Heel Farmhouse. It dates from the 18th century and is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a plain tiled roof. The roof is half-hipped, and there are two half-doors on the left and one on the right. Inside, the left end bay features an oast house with a hop press above it, along with partial remains of a kiln at the rear. The roof structure includes clasped purlins.
Local climate
Stables 20 Metres West of Heel Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% 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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