Oast House at Godwin House, Tenterden Road, Golford, Cranbrook, Kent:: OS grid TQ7936 :: Geograph British Isles

TQ7936 : Oast House at Godwin House, Tenterden Road, Golford, Cranbrook, Kent

near to Sissinghurst, Kent, Great Britain

Oast House at Godwin House, Tenterden Road, Golford, Cranbrook, Kent

Thought to be built around 1740, this is most likely the oldest oast house in existence. Sissinghurst and neighbouring Benenden and Cranbrook have most of the oldest oast houses built from the mid 1700s. They are distinguished by the cowl placed on the ridge of the roof, initial oast houses being merely modified barns. Similar examples of can be seen in grid squares TQ7936, TQ7937, TQ7935, TQ8134, TQ8538 and further afield in Paddock Wood TQ6843.

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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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2006

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Grid Square: TQ7936, 9 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Oast House Archive (find more nearby)
Image classification: Geograph
Date Taken: Saturday, 19 August, 2006 (more nearby)
Submitted: Monday, 5 February, 2007
Category: Oast house (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 799 365 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:5.9786N 0:34.1500E
Photographer Location: OSGB36: TQ 799 365
View Direction: South-southwest (about 202 degrees)