Oast Cottage the Oast House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Oast Cottage the Oast House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-flint-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oast Cottage the Oast House, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2HR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 783 375
- Coordinates
- 51.10916, 0.54585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Oast House and Oast Cottage are a pair of cottages, originally an oast house and granary, dating from the 18th century and altered in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed with a weatherboarded ground floor and tile hanging above, set beneath plain tiled hipped roofs. A lower wing forms the left end, this was originally the cottage, and includes a central ridge stack. A lower wing extends to the front on the right. A roundel, positioned at the right end, has a weatherboarded cowl and wind-vane. The building is two storeys high, with scattered casement windows. The cottage section on the left has an irregular three-window front and a boarded door set off-centre on the left side. The building is listed for its group value.
Local climate
Oast Cottage the Oast House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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 — 8 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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