Wreck Of The Week

The Property: Grade II listed detached oast

The Place: Tenterden Road, Rolvenden, Kent.

The Price: £395,000 OIEO

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The Pain: Oasts are not the easiest things in the world to convert, and a listed oast will inevitably come with its own challenges.

This one will need to have all the utilities connected. It is, says the agent, more suited to an individual buyer than to a developer.

The Gain: Oasts for conversion are rare enough these days, and this is a rather fine one - brick with a charming Kent peg tile roof.

It was originally built in the early 1800s, has been in the same farming family for five generations and was last used to dry hops with a coal fire (one of the last ever) in 2004.

So you’ll be buying, and saving, a real piece of history.

The good news is that planning permission has been granted for a three-bed home - and what a unique one it will be!

The property comes with half an acre and is set down a quiet ‘no through’ lane on the outskirts of Rolvenden. Rolvenden has a village shop with post office, village hall, several pubs with restaurants, parish church and a garage. There is an excellent weekly farmers’ market.

The schools in the area, in both the state and private sectors at primary and secondary levels, are very well regarded.

The Agent: Savills, Cranbrook (Tel: 01580 720161)

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