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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.
The Hop Oast Stadium, known for sponsorship purposes as the Fusion Aviation Community Stadium has been the home stadium of Horsham F.C. since 2019 after they moved out of their old Queen Street stadium in 2008. The club sold their ground at Queen Street, which had been their home since 1904, to property developers and moved out in 2008.
Hop growing also gave the area its distinctive skyline of hop gardens and oast houses, which were used to dry the hops. Nowadays, most hops are imported. However, at its peak 35,000 acres (140 km 2) of hop gardens existed in England, almost all of them in Kent, including much around Hawkhurst. Eventually mechanisation and cheap imports ended ...
Drying hops for brewing (known as a hop kiln or oast house) Drying corn (grain) before grinding or storage, sometimes called a corn kiln, corn drying kiln [8] Drying green lumber so it can be used immediately; Drying wood for use as firewood; Heating wood to the point of pyrolysis to produce charcoal; Extracting pine tar from pine tree logs or ...
The Old Hop Kiln (Oast House) East Worldham House, a Grade II listed building, dates to the late 18th and early 19th century. [20] The two-storey house is made with ashlar walls, flat arches and stone cills. The entrance is located on the west side and features a Tuscan porch in the centre, with 5 windows, one of them large. [20]
George Orwell tried his hand at hop-picking at Blest's Farm, somewhere near West Malling, [16] in September 1931, travelling down from London disguised as a tramp.He spent his time living in a Hopper Hut made of tin (corrugated iron), thus discovering that fruit and hop picking was not quite the idyllic life described by many scholars and writers of the time.
Kent is sometimes known as the "Garden of England" for its abundance of orchards and hop gardens. In particular the county produces tree-grown fruits, [52] strawberries and hazelnuts. [53] Distinctive hop-drying buildings called oasts are common in the countryside, although many have been converted into dwellings. Nearer to London, market ...