Oasthouses at Maplesden is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Oast house.
Oasthouses at Maplesden
- WRENN ID
- muffled-pavement-yew
- 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
- Oasthouses at Maplesden, Stepneyford Lane, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 834 331
- Coordinates
- 51.06871, 0.61752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Oasthouses at Maplesden are 18th century stowage buildings with early 19th century oasts located on the east side of Stepneyford Lane in Benenden. The stowage features a ground floor constructed in Sussex bond, while the first floor is weatherboarded and topped with a tiled roof that includes a metal weathervane. It has casement windows and wooden steps leading to the first floor. At the front, there is a two-storey projection that is also weatherboarded, with an open ground floor. Attached to this structure are two circular brick oasts, built in Sussex bond, each topped with conical tiled roofs, cowls, and fantails.
Local climate
Oasthouses at Maplesden 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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