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Finches Farm Oast

Two round kiln oast house.

Once electricity began to be introduced to the oast house, fans were used to drive air through the hops, which was easier to control than the traditional vacuum of air through the cowl, and allowed a larger quantity of hops to be dried at one time. Some oast kilns were modified with louvred ventilators, to replaced the cowls which could not cope with the extra pressure. This example was called The "Watson" ventilator, designed in the 1960's.
by Oast House Archive

Created: Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Updated: Sun, 26 Sep 2010


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TQ6445 : Finches Farm Oast by N Chadwick
2021
TQ6445 : Finches Farm Oast by N Chadwick
2021
TQ6445 : Oast House at Finches Farm, Five Oak Green Road, Five Oak Green, Kent by Oast House Archive
2009
TQ6445 : Unconverted Oast House at Finches Farm, Five Oak Green Road, Five Oak Green, Kent by Oast House Archive
2003


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