2021
TQ6534 : Blue Caps Oast, Sleepers Stile Road, Cousley Wood
taken 3 years ago, near to Cousley Wood, East Sussex, England
Blue Caps Oast, Sleepers Stile Road, Cousley Wood
Blue Caps Oast
Single round kiln oast house. A fake square kiln was added around 2008/9.
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