Cowl of Oast House, Mascalls Pound Farm:: OS grid TQ6643 :: Geograph British Isles

TQ6643 : Cowl of Oast House, Mascalls Pound Farm

near to Paddock Wood, Kent, Great Britain

Cowl of Oast House, Mascalls Pound Farm

A large cockerel icon sits proudly on the cowl vane.

See whole building TQ6643 : Oast House, Mascalls Pound Farm, Maidstone Road, Paddock Wood, Kent

Oast House Cowl

The cowl was fitted to the top of the kiln roof of an oast house. It pivoted with the wind to allow the hot air from the fired kiln below to be drawn through the hops and out through the top. …read more Link

Oast Houses

An Oast House is a building used to dry fresh hops before they are sent to the brewers, to be used for flavouring beer. A typical Oast House consisted of the 'oast' and the 'stowage'. The oast was a kiln, with a plenum chamber fired by charcoal at ground floor and the drying floor directly above. The steep pitched roof channelled the hot air through the hops to the top. The stowage, was the barn section, it had a cooling floor and press at first floor and storage area at ground floor. …read more about Oast Houses Link

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2008

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Grid Square: TQ6643, 9 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Oast House Archive (find more nearby)
Image classification: Supplemental image
Date Taken: Wednesday, 1 October, 2008 (more nearby)
Submitted: Thursday, 5 February, 2009
Category: Oast house (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 6654 4372 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:10.1087N 0:22.8435E
Photographer Location: OSGB36: TQ 6654 4370
View Direction: NORTH (about 0 degrees)