Oasthouse 20 Yards to North West of Little Golford is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Outbuilding.

Oasthouse 20 Yards to North West of Little Golford

WRENN ID
lapsed-keep-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1967
Type
Outbuilding
OS grid reference
TQ 799 365
Coordinates
51.10014, 0.56931
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an oasthouse and granary, now used as a garage and store, located 20 yards to the northwest of Little Golford. It dates from the mid-18th century and incorporates structural components from the 16th or 17th century. The building is timber-framed and weatherboarded, featuring a plain tiled hipped roof with a cowl and wind-vane at the left end of the ridge. There is a half-catslide roof to the rear on the right side. The front has doubled boarded garage doors on the right. Inside, the structure consists of two bays with a side purlin roof that includes some collars and jowled posts. The hearth has been removed.

Local climate

Oasthouse 20 Yards to North West of Little Golford 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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