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Latitude: 51.1785 / 51°10'42"N
Longitude: 0.3511 / 0°21'4"E
OS Eastings: 564434
OS Northings: 144769
OS Grid: TQ644447
Mapcode National: GBR NQT.5KT
Mapcode Global: VHJMQ.1MGX
Plus Code: 9F3259H2+CC
Entry Name: Oasthouse Approximately 12 Metres North West of Lydd Farmhouse
Listing Date: 9 May 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1261771
English Heritage Legacy ID: 436712
ID on this website: 101261771
Location: Capel, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN12
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Capel
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Tudeley cum Capel with Five Oak Green
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Drying house
TQ 64 SW CAPEL SYCHEM LANE, FIVE OAK GREEN
5/288 Oasthouse approx 12m north
9.5.90 west of Lydd Farmhouse
GV II
Oasthouse. Mid/late C19. Red brick, end wall of stowage is timber-framed
clad with weatherboards; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Small oasthouse. Stowage faces south west with single hop kiln on left
(north west) end.
Exterior: One-window front, one each floor roughly central, a first floor C19
9-pane sash and ground floor C20 casement with glazing bars under a low
segmental arch. To left a doorway to each floor, one over the other, and both
containing plank doors. Secondary timber-framed loading platform in front
under a corrugated iron monopitch roof. It has ladder access. Roof is half-
hipped to right end. This end wall has double plank doors for cart access to
ground floor and small fixed pane window above. Hop kiln is circular in plan
with cogged brick cornice and tall conical roof surmounted by a box-like
ventilation system with pitched roof (for oil-fired hop drying).
Interior: Has plain but sturdy carpentry detail.
This unconverted oast is still in working order and forms part of an unusually
attractive group of farmbuildings around Lydd Farmhouse (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ6444244744
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