Broadwater Farm Oasthouses is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1993. Oasthouses. 9 related planning applications.

Broadwater Farm Oasthouses

WRENN ID
under-joist-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 February 1993
Type
Oasthouses
Address
Broadwater Farm Oasthouses, Broadwater Road, East Malling & Larkfield, ME19 6HT
OS grid reference
TQ 688 566
Coordinates
51.2844, 0.4199
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

These oasthouses and an attached cart shed date from the early to mid-19th century. They are located at Broadwater Farm, East Malling. The oasthouses consist of two parallel ranges built of red brick in Flemish bond, with grey brick headers. The front range has a hipped roof with three cambered casements on the first floor and three cambered doorcases. The rear range is half-hipped towards the road, incorporating two blocked pointed arches on the first floor and a central loading door secured with cross-shaped iron ties. The farmyard side features cambered casements and what was originally a cambered cart entrance, now converted to a sliding door.

The southernmost roundel likely dates from the early 19th century and is built in Flemish bond with a tiled roof, cowl, and fantail. The next roundel north is of stock brick in a Sussex bond, also with a tiled roof, cowl and fantail. The remaining three kilns are further north; two have bases of Kentish ragstone with galleting, with stock brick above, and the third is entirely of stock brick. All have tiled roofs with cowls and fantails.

An early 20th-century two-story wooden platform extends to the north, connecting to a mid-19th century, four-bay open-fronted cart shed. The cart shed has a queen post roof, a red brick rear with pilasters, and missing roof tiles. The interiors of the oasthouses retain drying racks and hop presses.

Local climate

Broadwater Farm Oasthouses receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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