Oasthouse at Old Place is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Oasthouse.

Oasthouse at Old Place

WRENN ID
little-niche-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 July 1993
Type
Oasthouse
Address
Oasthouse at Old Place, Church Road, Sandhurst
OS grid reference
TQ 791 270
Coordinates
51.01447, 0.55325
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Oasthouse at Old Place is an early 19th-century structure located on Church Road in Sandhurst. The building features a ground floor made of red brick, with a weatherboarded first floor and a half-hipped slate roof. Attached to the main oasthouse are four brick oasts constructed in Sussex bond, each topped with conical tarred roofs that still have their cowls and fantails, along with drying racks. There is also a 20th-century brick building attached to the oasthouse.

Local climate

Oasthouse at Old Place 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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