Oasthouse About 50 Metres East of Castlemaine Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. Warehouse.
Oasthouse About 50 Metres East of Castlemaine Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-lantern-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- Warehouse
- OS grid reference
- TQ 709 424
- Coordinates
- 51.15613, 0.44283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an oasthouse built in the mid-19th century, located about 50 metres east of Castlemaine Farm Cottage. It features red brick construction and plain tiled roofs. The building has three storeys of stowage, with four wooden casement windows on each floor and boarded cart doors on the right end. On the left end, there is a roundel, and at the rear, there is a continuous range of four square kilns. The leftmost kiln has a raking dormer, and all the kilns are designed with brick corbelled eaves, cowls, and winding vanes.
Local climate
Oasthouse About 50 Metres East of Castlemaine Farm Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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