Oasthouse Immediately West of Mile Oak Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Oast house. 1 related planning application.
Oasthouse Immediately West of Mile Oak Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- floating-cornice-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Oast house
- Address
- Oasthouse Immediately West of Mile Oak Farmhouse, Mile Oak Road, Paddock Wood, TN12 6NR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 680 437
- Coordinates
- 51.16831, 0.40201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an oasthouse, likely built in the mid-19th century, located immediately west of Mile Oak Farmhouse on Mile Oak Road in Paddock Wood. The ground floor is constructed of Flemish bond brick, while the first floor is weatherboarded. It features a peg-tile roof and a brick kiln topped with a peg-tile roof.
The oasthouse is two storeys tall and is oriented on a west-east axis, perpendicular to the farmhouse, with the kiln situated at the eastern end. The exterior includes a circular kiln with a conical roof, brick cogging beneath the eaves, and a cowl. The eastern end of the stowage has been converted into a garage. On the south elevation, there is one two-light casement window on the first floor. The north elevation has three first-floor openings, one of which has slender mullions, along with a centrally located door on the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Oasthouse Immediately West of Mile Oak Farmhouse 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 lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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