Oasthouse About 100 Metres North of Matfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Oasthouse.
Oasthouse About 100 Metres North of Matfield House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-moulding-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Oasthouse
- OS grid reference
- TQ 658 420
- Coordinates
- 51.15369, 0.3704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an oasthouse located about 100 meters north-east of Matfield House, likely built in the mid to late 19th century, with some alterations in the 20th century. The ground floor is constructed of Flemish bond brick, while the first floor is weatherboarded, and it features brick kilns topped with peg-tile roofs.
The oasthouse has a two-storey stowage area with a gabled roof, oriented on an east-west axis. The south elevation includes two sets of paired plank doors on the left, with the left pair featuring strap hinges. To the right, there is a plank door with a segmental arched head and a two-light late 19th or 20th-century casement window to the left. The upper floor has left and right casement windows from the 19th or 20th century and a centrally located plank loft door. The north elevation features three ground floor casement windows from the 19th or 20th century and a barred segmental-headed opening. There is one two-light casement window on the first floor and two additional first floor windows at the west end, one of which has a slatted opening.
The three circular kilns have conical roofs with brick cogging below the eaves and timber cowls. The two southern kilns each have one ground floor top-hung casement window, while the northernmost kiln has a single-light window from the 19th or 20th century. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Oasthouse About 100 Metres North of Matfield House 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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