Upper Postern Oast
UPPER POSTERN OAST, POSTERN LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253181
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Postern Oast
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER POSTERN OAST, POSTERN LANE
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- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253181
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Postern Oast
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER POSTERN OAST, POSTERN LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER POSTERN OAST, POSTERN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Capel
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 61486 46050
Details
TQ 64 NW CAPEL POSTERN LANE, TUDELEY
1/277 Upper Postern Oast
GV II
Converted oasthouse. Mid/late C19, converted circa 1980. Most is red brick but part of the stowage is timber-framed and weatherboarded; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Former oasthouse faces south onto the lane. Unusual double stowage with an H-shaped plan. 2 parallel stowage blocks are set a short distance apart, and set end onto the lane. They are connected by a middle crosswing. 2 hop kilns on the left (west) end.
Exterior: All C20 casements with glazing bars. The first floor level of the stowage is mostly weatherboarded and the roofs are hipped both end. The hop kilns are circular in section with brick dentil eaves cornices and tall conical roofs with cowls.
Interior: Not inspected.
This oasthouse forms part of a group with nearby Upper Postern Farmhouse (q.v.). Also it is built on the crest of a low hill so that it plays an important role in the landscape which is essentially unspoilt and of the buildings in the vicinity most are historic and listed.
Listing NGR: TQ6148646050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436326
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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