Oast and Granary 25 Yards West of Four Wents Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Oast, granary.
Oast and Granary 25 Yards West of Four Wents Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-ember-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Oast, granary
- OS grid reference
- TQ 752 375
- Coordinates
- 51.11052, 0.50285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is an oast and granary, now used as a store, located 25 yards west of Four Wents Farmhouse. It dates from the 18th century and features a timber frame with red brick cladding on the ground floor to the south and parts of other sides, while the rest is weatherboarded. The roofs are plain tiled and have a half hipped design with a deep catslide outshot at the rear that wraps around two capped oasts. The granary is two stories tall and has an irregular arrangement of windows, including three on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all with shutters. There is a small casement window to the right of the left-hand first floor shutter. The right-hand end has two doors; the left door is boarded, and the right door is of stable type.
Local climate
Oast and Granary 25 Yards West of Four Wents Farmhouse 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 — 5 transactions since 1995
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