Ashdown Cottage, Cottage Lane, Sedlescombe, East Sussex:: OS grid TQ7817 :: Geograph British Isles

TQ7817 : Ashdown Cottage, Cottage Lane, Sedlescombe, East Sussex

near to Sedlescombe, East Sussex, Great Britain

Ashdown Cottage, Cottage Lane, Sedlescombe, East Sussex

What appears to possibly be a former oast house with the roundel roof replaced with a more conventional roof. If not an oast it is certainly inspired by one.

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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2007

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Grid Square: TQ7817, 16 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Oast House Archive (find more nearby)
Image classification: Geograph
Date Taken: Saturday, 6 October, 2007 (more nearby)
Submitted: Saturday, 6 October, 2007
Category: Oast house (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 7889 1707 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:55.5209N 0:32.6422E
Photographer Location: OSGB36: TQ 7880 1706
View Direction: EAST (about 90 degrees)