Oasthouse About 30 Metres North East of Hale Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. Oast house.

Oasthouse About 30 Metres North East of Hale Farmhouse

WRENN ID
blind-window-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1989
Type
Oast house
OS grid reference
TQ 686 393
Coordinates
51.12821, 0.40837
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an oasthouse located about 30 metres northeast of Hale Farmhouse. It dates from the 16th century or earlier and was altered and extended in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The building features a timber-framed stowage that is clad with red brick on the ground floor and weatherboarding on the first floor, with red brick roundels. The roof is plain tiled, hipped to the right and gabled to the left, and has three skylights.

On the first floor, there are six shuttered window openings, a wooden casement to the right, and two French doors on the ground floor. The left side has a boarded attic loft door with a hoist and pulley above, a boarded first-floor loft door, and two carriage openings on the ground floor. The rear has four roundels with intact cowls.

Inside, there is a fine clasped purlin roof with diminished principals and wind braces, consisting of six bays, with the central right bay being double width. The wall to the roundels features a jetty on the first floor supported by inserted posts and a moulded bracket that appears to have a domestic origin. Preliminary work for conversion reportedly uncovered traces of a probable domestic building beneath the right-hand roundels. At the time of the survey, the oasthouse was being prepared for conversion to domestic use.

Local climate

Oasthouse About 30 Metres North East of Hale Farmhouse 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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