Park Farm Oast, Queen Street, Paddock Wood, Kent:: OS grid TQ6844 :: Geograph British Isles

TQ6844 : Park Farm Oast, Queen Street, Paddock Wood, Kent

near to Queen Street, Kent, Great Britain

Park Farm Oast, Queen Street, Paddock Wood, Kent

Large six round kilned oast house.

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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2003

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Grid Square: TQ6844, 9 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Oast House Archive (find more nearby)
Image classification: Supplemental image
Date Taken: 2003 (more nearby)
Submitted: Tuesday, 16 June, 2009
Keywords: converted, roundels
Category: Oast house (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 6889 4483 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:10.6657N 0:24.8897E
Photographer Location: OSGB36: TQ 6908 4476
View Direction: West-northwest (about 292 degrees)