Grovehurst Oast is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. Oasthouse.
Grovehurst Oast
- WRENN ID
- carved-vestry-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- Oasthouse
- Address
- Grovehurst Oast, Grovehurst Lane, Horsmonden, Tonbridge, TN12 8BQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 716 408
- Coordinates
- 51.14079, 0.4517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grovehurst Oast is a double oasthouse built in the mid-19th century. It features a combination of red and blue chequered brick and weatherboarding, topped with plain tiled roofs. The structure consists of two two-storey stowages, each with red brick ground floors. The gable end of the eastern stowage is open, while the western stowage has a cart entry. Both stowages have loft doors on the first floor, with a hoist bracket located to the right. The left return elevation includes three wooden casements on the first floor and two on the ground floor, along with a basement opening at the rear left. The base of the oasthouse has paired roundels in English Bond on the plinth, connected by a tiled linking gantry and featuring louvred bases to the cowls.
Local climate
Grovehurst Oast 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
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