2003

TQ7458 : Oast House at The Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree, Lock Lane, Sandling, Kent

taken 21 years ago, near to Sandling, Kent, England

Oast House at The Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree, Lock Lane, Sandling, Kent
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

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 hop-picking 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 at wikipedia LinkExternal 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 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

Sandling Farm Oast

Twin square kilned and twin round kilned ragstone oast house.

Part of the Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree.


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April 2003   (more nearby)
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Saturday, 6 October, 2007
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