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A traditional oast at Frittenden, Kent. An oast, oast house (or oasthouse) or hop kiln is a building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process. Oast houses can be found in most hop-growing (and former hop-growing) areas, and are often good examples of agricultural vernacular architecture. Many redundant oast houses have ...
The Hop Farm is a 400-acre (1.6 km 2) Country Park in Beltring, near East Peckham in the English county of Kent. The farm is over 450 years old and has the largest collection of oast houses in the world. [1]
A traditional oast at Frittenden, Kent. An oast, oast house (or oasthouse) or hop kiln is a building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process. Oast houses can be found in most hop-growing (and former hop-growing) areas, and are often good examples of agricultural vernacular architecture. Many redundant oast houses have ...
Beltring is a village in the local government district of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. It is in the civil parish of East Peckham . Beltring is known for the annual War and peace show which takes place at The Hop Farm Country Park .
Great Dixter is a house in Northiam, East Sussex, England. It was built in 1910–12 by architect Edwin Lutyens, who combined an existing mid-15th century house on the site with a similar structure brought from Benenden, Kent, together with his own additions. It is a Grade I listed building. [1]
Sutton Valence road sign on the A274 showing the school, village, castle and oast houses. Iron Age and Roman artefacts have been found in the area. The Roman road from Maidstone to Ashford and Lympne passed through the village.
Kent has three unique vernacular architecture forms: the oast house, the Wealden hall house, and Kentish peg-tiles. Kent has bridge trusts to maintain its bridges, and though the great bridge (1387) at Rochester was replaced there are medieval structures at Aylesford, Yalding and Teston. [61]
thumb|Oast houses Historically, Chainhurst's predominant employment was in agriculture. [4] Farmland near Chainhurst is used for orchards and arable crops. There were extensive hop gardens with several former oast houses surviving. The Hopper huts south of the bridge over the River Beult accommodated seasonal workers for the annual hop harvest.