Old Eaton Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. A C18 Oasthouse. 3 related planning applications.
Old Eaton Oast
- WRENN ID
- tattered-steel-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Oasthouse
- Address
- Old Eaton Oast, Benenden, TN17 4AR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 819 346
- Coordinates
- 51.08188, 0.59699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Eaton Oast is an 18th and early 19th century oasthouse, likely with stowage from the 18th century, and restored in the 20th century. The ground floor is built of red brick, while the first floor is weatherboarded with tile-hanging to the road frontage. The roof is old tiled and half-hipped. The front elevation features one 18th-century casement window with diamond-shaped leaded lights, a loading door, and an 18th-century plank door. More recent casement windows are present on the right-hand side elevation. At the rear is a square brick oast with a pyramidal roof and a wooden cowl. An early 19th-century English bond brick extension with a tiled roof adjoins the building on the left.
Local climate
Old Eaton Oast 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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