Down Farm Oasts Down Farm Oasts and Fuggles Oast House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1973. Oast house. 2 related planning applications.
Down Farm Oasts Down Farm Oasts and Fuggles Oast House
- WRENN ID
- late-flue-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1973
- Type
- Oast house
- Address
- Down Farm Oasts Down Farm Oasts and Fuggles Oast House, 1, 2, 3, the Down, Lamberhurst, TN3 8HF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 675 355
- Coordinates
- 51.09467, 0.3907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down Farm Oasts and Fuggles Oast House is an oast house, dated 1876, converted into four houses. The building is constructed of brown brick with a boarded centre section and a plain tiled roof. It features rendered roundels, each with a tarred roof. The three-storey stowage is divided into five bays by pilaster strips extending to a corbelled cornice. The return elevations are similarly treated and divided into two bays, with moulded gables. Stacks are positioned centrally and to the right. A large gabled lucam (top window) is located above the central bay. The façade features six casements on the first and second floors (paired in the central bay) and four casements on the ground floor, with glazed doors to the centre and right. Additional doors are present on the left and right returns, leading to a large lean-to outshot with a boarded gabled gantry. A late 20th-century brick lean-to and weatherboarded extension were added to the Fuggles Oast. The rear of the building has four large roundels, each with plinths, stepped buttresses to the upper floors, and intact cowls and fantails, though large wooden casements have been inserted on all floors.
Local climate
Down Farm Oasts Down Farm Oasts and Fuggles Oast 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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 — 11 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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