Beston Farm Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Oast house.
Beston Farm Oast
- WRENN ID
- waning-chancel-mint
- 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
- Beston Farm Oast, Halden Lane, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 845 340
- Coordinates
- 51.07622, 0.63252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beston Farm Oast is an early 19th-century oasthouse located in Benenden. It features an L-shaped storage structure that is primarily weatherboarded, resting on a brick plinth, with some areas of exposed brickwork. The roof is hipped and covered with old tiles. On the first floor, there are two small hinged casements. Attached to the main structure is a circular brick oast built in Sussex bond, which has a modillion eaves cornice and a conical tiled roof topped with a wooden cowl.
Local climate
Beston Farm Oast 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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