Oasthouse About 100 Metres West of Conghurst is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Oasthouse.
Oasthouse About 100 Metres West of Conghurst
- WRENN ID
- fallow-cellar-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Oasthouse
- OS grid reference
- TQ 768 282
- Coordinates
- 51.02599, 0.52099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an oasthouse located about 100 metres west of Conghurst, dating from the mid-19th century. It features a timber-framed stowage that is weather-boarded, with a sandstone end wall and a slate roof. The roundel, which is made of sandstone and red brick, has a tiled roof. The stowage has an open ground floor supported by stone piers, with the end wall at road level and a hipped roof. There is a boarded door facing the roadside, accessed by a short flight of steps. The roundel is positioned to the rear left, with a stone base and upper courses made of red brick, leading into the stowage through a similarly constructed outshot. The roundel has a conical roof.
Local climate
Oasthouse About 100 Metres West of Conghurst receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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