2007

TQ7638 : Hazelden Farm Oast, Marden Road, Colliers Green, Kent

taken 16 years ago, near to Wilsley Green, Kent, England

Hazelden Farm Oast, Marden Road, Colliers Green, Kent
Hazelden Farm Oast, Marden Road, Colliers Green, Kent
A twin round and single square kilned oast house.

The wooden structure is called a greenstage. The greenstage was a raised storage area for fresh hops awaiting to be dried in the oast house kiln. The wooden slatted floor allowed air to flow through and prevent the hops wilting.

Greenstages were often later structures added to an existing oast house, an increase in hop production meaning a need for further temporary storage areas.

This greenstage is unusual in that it has access doors directly into the kilns rather than the upper cooling area of the stowage. Also linked to the adjacent hop processing building.
Hazelden Farm Oast

A twin round and single square kilned oast house. Converted to a dwelling in 2012.

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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Thursday, 18 October, 2007   (more nearby)
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Saturday, 19 September, 2009
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OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 767 384 [100m precision]
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OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 767 384
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