Unconverted Oast House at Place Farm, Water Lane, Headcorn, Kent:: OS grid TQ8143 :: Geograph British Isles

TQ8143 : Unconverted Oast House at Place Farm, Water Lane, Headcorn, Kent

near to Headcorn, Kent, Great Britain

Unconverted Oast House at Place Farm, Water Lane, Headcorn, Kent

Single round kiln oast house, missing cowl.

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

Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]

Find out how to reuse this Image For example on your webpage, blog, a forum, or Wikipedia.
	Start a discussion on TQ8143		Suggest an Update to this Image		Contact the contributor

1:50,000 Modern Day Landranger(TM) Map © Crown Copyright

TIP: Click the map to open OS Get-a-Map
Change to interactive Map >

Grid Square: TQ8143, 14 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Oast House Archive (find more nearby)
Image classification: Geograph
Date Taken: Tuesday, 19 May, 2009 (more nearby)
Submitted: Tuesday, 19 May, 2009
Keywords: oast house, oast, oasts, kiln, unconverted, hops, weatherboard, disused, farm
Category: Oast house (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 8178 4377 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:9.8575N 0:35.9104E
Photographer Location: OSGB36: TQ 8178 4375
View Direction: North-northwest (about 337 degrees)