Description

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY THE CROOK

6/60 Oasthouse about 45m north east
of Wat Tyler's Cottage

GV II

Oasthouse undergoing conversion at time of survey (1988). Probably 1860s or
1870s. Brick kilns with peg-tile roofs and timber cowls, the stowage rebuilt
in garden wall band brick on the ground floor, the first floor weatherboarded;
no roof covering to the stowage at time of survey (1989), peg-tile roof
planned.

Plan: A roadside building, facing south and sited immediately east of a
converted barn (q.v.). Stowage with 2 kilns at the east end and a third on
the north side.

Exterior: 2 storey stowage with an asymmetrical 3-window front. The ground
floor has 3 2-light windows with glazing bars to the left of the front door
and is blind to the right. The first floor has loft door over the front door,
2 2-light casements with glazing bars to the left, one similar window to the
right, a former ventilating panel marked by a rectangle of fixed slats.
Cylindrical kilns with brick cogging below the conical roofs and original
timber cowls. No windows in the kilns at time of survey.

Interior: Much of the original structural carpentry is intact.

Roof: The original roofs survive. The stowage roof is of king post and strut
design, the kiln roofs are single tier with very long rafters which have been
augmented by steel ring bands.

The oast is sited on a ridge which drops away towards Paddock Wood to the
north, making the kilns particularly prominent. Group value with the adjacent
converted barn and Wat Tyler's Cottage.

Listing NGR: TQ6834842246

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541261

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings