TQ7458 : Oast House at The Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree, Lock Lane, Sandling, Kent
near to Sandling, Kent, Great Britain

Oast House at The Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree, Lock Lane, Sandling, Kent
Twin square kilned and twin round kilned ragstone oast house. The second square kiln seen to the right of the cowled square kiln, now missing original roof and cowl.
Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree
The Museum of Kent Life is an open air museum, based around an original farmstead, called Sandling Farm. One of the original buildings is an 19th century oast house, which is used to demonstrate hop drying during the September hoppicking season. There are also two farm houses and farmyard buildings.
A number of buildings have been saved from destruction and reconstructed at the site. These include hopper huts, thatched barn, granary, chapel, village hall, cottages, and another farmhouse.
…read more on wikipedia 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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- Date Taken
- April 2003 (more nearby)
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- Saturday, 6 October, 2007
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- Oast house (more nearby)
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TQ 7490 5832 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:17.8285N 0:30.4383E - Photographer Location
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TQ 7492 5829 - View Direction
- North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
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