Cowl of Mousehall Oast:: OS grid TQ6029 :: Geograph British Isles

TQ6029 : Cowl of Mousehall Oast

near to Tidebrook, East Sussex, Great Britain

Cowl of Mousehall Oast

The cowl of TQ6029 : Mousehall Oast, Tidebrook, Wadhurst, East Sussex with a sitting mouse icon to the vane.

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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Grid Square: TQ6029, 5 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Oast House Archive (find more nearby)
Image classification: Supplemental image
Date Taken: Saturday, 21 March, 2009 (more nearby)
Submitted: Tuesday, 24 March, 2009
Category: Oast house (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 6066 2953 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:2.5598N 0:17.4229E
Photographer Location: OSGB36: TQ 6065 2953
View Direction: North-northeast (about 22 degrees)