Poplar Farm Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Converted oasthouse.
Poplar Farm Oast
- WRENN ID
- lone-kitchen-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Converted oasthouse
- Address
- Poplar Farm Oast, Three Elm Lane, Hadlow
- OS grid reference
- TQ 645 482
- Coordinates
- 51.20935, 0.35414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poplar Farm Oast is a converted oasthouse from the mid to late 19th century, which was transformed into a house around 1980. It is built from English bond red brick, featuring some burnt headers, and has a peg-tile roof.
The building was originally a three-kiln oasthouse, with the former stowage facing south. It has two former hop kilns on the left (west) end and another nearby at the rear, and it stands two storeys high.
The exterior includes windows with circa 1980 casements that do not have glazing bars. The front of the stowage has four regular first-floor windows that likely occupy original openings. The front door, located at the left end, features a circa 1980 door with sidelights, while a secondary doorway at the right end retains its original round-headed arch. The ground floor is sheltered by a pent roof supported by a four-bay arcade of plain timber posts. There is a cogged brick eaves cornice along the stowage and kilns, and the roof is hipped to the right. The former hop kilns are circular with tall conical roofs topped by cowls.
The interior has not been inspected. This former oasthouse, especially its kiln roofs, is part of a notable group of listed buildings in the area surrounding Barnes Place.
Local climate
Poplar Farm Oast receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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