Listed Building record TR 15 SW 131 - GRANARY, OASTHOUSES AND OAST COTTAGE AT SWARLING MANOR

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 PETHAM SWARLING HILL ROAD
Granary, Oasthouses and Oast Cottage at Swarling Manor TR 15 SW 12/536A 30.1.67
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2. Dated 1779 and probably built at the same time as the home. The granary faces south. Three storeys red brick. Hipped tiled roof and modillion eaves cornice. Right windows in all. Central doorway on each floor, the ground floor one a double one with a hoist at the top. At each end is a window bay of 2 storeys, (probably added) in red brick and grey headers. The west one has been converted into a dwelling (Oast Cottage). Adjoining the Granary on the north are 6 square oasthouses with a continuous red brick wall and pyramidal tiled roofs surmounted by revolving wooden cowls.
Listing NGR: TR1301052917 (1)

Description from record TR 15 SW 24:
Swarling Oast, Petham, built 1790. In 1983, four of the then five remaining kiln roofs and part of the stowage roof collasped following a heavy storm. (Oast Cottage, South Manor Farm, is shown on OS 1:2500,1972 at TR 1298 5290. From the photograph this can be deduced as the building attached to the west side of the Oast, this being at TR 1300 5291) (2)

Historic England archive material: BF096230 SWARLING MANOR, PETHAM

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Oasts in Kent Their Construction and Equipment 1984 47 photo (RAE Walton) (OS Card Reference). SKE47856.