Former Oasthouse to West of Yew Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Oast house. 1 related planning application.
Former Oasthouse to West of Yew Tree House
- WRENN ID
- silver-courtyard-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Oast house
- Address
- Former Oasthouse to West of Yew Tree House, Walkhurst Road, Benenden, TN17 4DR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 810 329
- Coordinates
- 51.06718, 0.58202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former oasthouse, built around 1840, located to the west of Yew Tree House in Benenden. Originally a two-story structure, it has been converted into a garage. The building is weatherboarded and features an old tiled roof, half-hipped at the right end. It includes one sash window, one fixed casement window, and a hoist to the first floor. The ground floor now contains garage doors. A circular brick oast house with a conical tiled roof is attached. The cowl and fantail were missing at the time of survey. It is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Former Oasthouse to West of Yew Tree House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 2004
- 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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