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Latitude: 51.2407 / 51°14'26"N
Longitude: 0.5143 / 0°30'51"E
OS Eastings: 575599
OS Northings: 152057
OS Grid: TQ755520
Mapcode National: GBR PRL.4V2
Mapcode Global: VHJML.V2QR
Plus Code: 9F326GR7+7P
Entry Name: Former Oasthouse About 20 Metres South South East of the Wool House and Wool House Cottage
Listing Date: 25 June 1967
Last Amended: 26 February 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1250658
English Heritage Legacy ID: 433108
ID on this website: 101250658
Location: Loose, Maidstone, Kent, ME15
County: Kent
District: Maidstone
Civil Parish: Loose
Built-Up Area: Maidstone
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Drying house
WELL STREET
TQ 7552 LOOSE
(East Side)
6/209 Former Oasthouse about 20
metres south-south-east
of The Wool House and
25.5.67
Wool House Cottage
(formerly listed as
building in the grounds
GV of The Old Wool House)
II
Oasthouse, formerly private museum, now outbuilding. Late C18 or early
C19, altered in 1920s. Small blocks of coursed galleted stone, with
tooled stone dressings. Corrugated iron roof. Rectangular stowage
or barn oast approximately 70' long and 30' wide, partly built in to side
of hill. 3 storeys. Ground floor partly underground at south-east
(left) end. Mono-pitch roof. Long- and-short tooled stone quoins.
Irregular fenestration of 3 evenly-spaced latticed 6-light mullioned
and transomed windows to second floor. Former loading doorway to each
floor at north-west (right) end, separated only by stone lintels; upper
doorways now containing latticed lights. Small 3-light wooden diamond
mullion window to right end of ground floor. Interior: most of ground
floor apparently occupied by enclosed stone hearths. Building formerly
had 2 further weatherboarded storeys, and was part of an usually large
complex of similar buildings. Included for group value. (R. Thornburgh,
Exploring Loose Village, 1978).
Listing NGR: TQ7559952057
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