2003
TQ6747 : Bell 4 and 2, Beltring Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent
taken 21 years ago, near to Beltring, Kent, England
Bell 4 and 2, Beltring Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent
Bell 4 to the foreground.
The Hop Farm has the largest surviving complex of oast houses, with five oasts each with five kilns and the adjacent Brookers Oast originally with five kilns. There were also two other oasts within a mile owned by the original farm, one of which has been demolished. There was also an experiemental oast adjacent to Brookers which was demolished in the 1960's.
Also see
TQ6747 : Bells 1-4, Beltring Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent
TQ6747 : Bell 4, Beltring Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent
TQ6747 : Bell 5, Beltring Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent
TQ6747 : Bell 3, Beltring Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent
A larger complex of 32 kilns was in Loose at approximately
TQ753520, it was completely demolished to make way for new housing.
The Beltring Hop Farm The Beltring Hop Farm in Kent has the largest surviving complex of oast houses. The main site has five Grade II* listed five kiln oast houses called 'Bell 1' to 'Bell 5'. …read more Link
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 traditional Oast House consists 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 Link
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