Hale Farm Oast House the Oast Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Oast house. 4 related planning applications.
Hale Farm Oast House the Oast Barn
- WRENN ID
- south-span-martin
- 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
- Hale Farm Oast House the Oast Barn, Capel, TN11 0PQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 621 460
- Coordinates
- 51.19105, 0.31879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-to-late 19th-century oast house, converted into two dwellings around 1986. It is constructed of red brick with timber framing to the front of the former stowage, and has a peg-tile roof.
The building originally faced east and comprised an oasthouse with a stowage that was previously open at ground floor level. Three attached hop kilns are present; one on the south end of the front and two on the north end. The oasthouse has been divided, with Hale Farm Oast House occupying the south end including the hop kilns, and The Oast Barn occupying the northern section.
The front elevation has four bays. The left bay is obscured by a hop kiln. The two bays to the right are still open at ground floor level featuring a plain timber post between. The bay to the left of centre has been filled and contains a window. Above, there are three windows, with a former loading hatch doorway located to the right of centre. All windows are 20th-century casements; those in Hale Farm Oast House have a diamond-pane leaded glass effect, while those in The Oast Barn are plain glass. The stowage roof is half-hipped. The hop kilns are circular, featuring cogged brick eaves cornices and tall conical roofs topped with cowls; the kiln on the front has a taller roof.
The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Hale Farm Oast House the Oast Barn receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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