Oasthouse About 50 Metres West of Forge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Industrial building. 1 related planning application.
Oasthouse About 50 Metres West of Forge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- salt-brass-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Oasthouse About 50 Metres West of Forge Farmhouse, TN17 2QZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 727 358
- Coordinates
- 51.09611, 0.46621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an oasthouse located about 50 metres west of Forge Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century and incorporating an earlier structure. It is timber framed and clad with corrugated iron, featuring a red brick kiln topped with a plain tiled roof and a wooden cowl. The building has two storeys for stowage, with an extension or aisle at the rear that includes two wooden casements on each side. The first floor has a loft door on the south side and a boarded door on the east side with a raking hood. There are carriage doors on the rear elevation. The square plan kiln is situated to the west, with a raking lucarn on the south side and a gabled lucarn on the north side, along with blocked door openings at ground level on each face and a boarded door on the west. Notably, the ground floor brickwork is older in some areas than the upper sections, and the cowl remains intact without a winder.
Local climate
Oasthouse About 50 Metres West of Forge Farmhouse 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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