Appleby Oast & Little Tax Oast, Pearson's Green Road, Paddock Wood, Kent:: OS grid TQ6943 :: Geograph British Isles

TQ6943 : Appleby Oast & Little Tax Oast, Pearson's Green Road, Paddock Wood, Kent

near to Queen Street, Kent, Great Britain

Appleby Oast & Little Tax Oast, Pearson's Green Road, Paddock Wood, Kent

Triple round kilned oast house. Appleby Oast formerly know as Tax Oast.

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: TQ6943, 8 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Oast House Archive (find more nearby)
Image classification: Geograph
Date Taken: Monday, 2 November, 2009 (more nearby)
Submitted: Monday, 2 November, 2009
Category: Oast house (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 693 437 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:10.0812N 0:25.2368E
Photographer Location: OSGB36: TQ 693 437
View Direction: NORTH (about 0 degrees)