TQ6062 : Mingram Oast, Plaxdale Green Road, Stansted, Kent

near to Stansted, Kent, Great Britain

Mingram Oast, Plaxdale Green Road, Stansted, Kent
Mingram Oast, Plaxdale Green Road, Stansted, Kent
Single round kiln oast house. Flint walls.
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 LinkExternal link
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TQ6062, 18 images   (more nearby)
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Date Taken
Wednesday, 22 April, 2009   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 23 April, 2009
Category
Oast house   (more nearby)
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 6083 6218 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:20.1580N 0:18.4448E
Photographer Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 6080 6220
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East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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