Oast House at Stocks Farm, Wittersham Road, Wittersham, Kent:: OS grid TQ9127 :: Geograph British Isles

TQ9127 : Oast House at Stocks Farm, Wittersham Road, Wittersham, Kent

near to The Stocks, Kent, Great Britain

Oast House at Stocks Farm, Wittersham Road, Wittersham, Kent

Triple round kiln oast house, missing cowls. The kilns are are of various sizes and heights, suggesting each was added at a different time or a modified due to ineffective or over-effective draughting through the roofs.

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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: TQ9127, 7 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Oast House Archive (find more nearby)
Image classification: Geograph
Date Taken: Sunday, 10 December, 2006 (more nearby)
Submitted: Thursday, 15 February, 2007
Category: Oast house (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 9147 2732 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:0.8029N 0:43.6931E
Photographer Location: OSGB36: TQ 9143 2736
View Direction: Southeast (about 135 degrees)