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Three round kiln oast house.

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

East Peckham is a village in West Kent. It is composed of nine hamlets, including Hale Street, Branbridges and Little Mill. The village has a Victorian church, school, village hall, public houses and shops. It was the centre of the hop growing industry and there are a lot of Oast houses around the village.
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