Bell 4, Beltring Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent:: OS grid TQ6747 :: Geograph British Isles

TQ6747 : Bell 4, Beltring Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent

near to Beltring, Kent, Great Britain

Bell 4, Beltring Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent

A five round kiln oast house, one of four at the Hop Farm.

Also see TQ6747 : Bell 4 Oast House, Beltring Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent

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 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: TQ6747, 51 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Oast House Archive (find more nearby)
Image classification: Geograph
Date Taken: March 2003 (more nearby)
Submitted: Saturday, 6 October, 2007
Category: Oast house (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 6740 4750 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:12.1313N 0:23.6865E
Photographer Location: OSGB36: TQ 6736 4746
View Direction: Northeast (about 45 degrees)