Homestall Oast, The Street, Sedlescombe, Battle, East Sussex:: OS grid TQ7817 :: Geograph British Isles

TQ7817 : Homestall Oast, The Street, Sedlescombe, Battle, East Sussex

near to Sedlescombe, East Sussex, Great Britain

Homestall Oast, The Street, Sedlescombe, Battle, East Sussex

This oast house has a most impressive set of blinkers (see inset). Blinkers are the extra vertical panels of the cowl, generally found on East Sussex cowls.

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: Supplemental image
Date Taken: Saturday, 6 October, 2007 (more nearby)
Submitted: Saturday, 6 October, 2007
Category: Oast house (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 7814 1774 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:55.8960N 0:32.0222E
Photographer Location: OSGB36: TQ 7814 1770
View Direction: North-northwest (about 337 degrees)