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What (who) is Oast - definition

BUILDING DESIGNED FOR KILNING (DRYING) HOPS AS PART OF THE BREWING PROCESS
Oast-house; Oasthouse; Oast; Hop kiln
  • Oast houses in [[New Norfolk, Tasmania]]
  • Castle Farm, [[Hadlow]], Kent, showing fire damage
  • This building in [[Spalt]], Germany was used for drying hops.

oast         
[??st]
¦ noun a kiln for drying hops.
Origin
OE ast, of Gmc origin.
Oast         
·noun A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle.
oast house         
¦ noun a building containing an oast, typically conical in shape with a cowl on top.

Wikipedia

Oast house

An oast, oast house or hop kiln is a building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process. They can be found in most hop-growing (and former hop-growing) areas and are often good examples of vernacular architecture. Many redundant oasts have been converted into houses. The names oast and oast house are used interchangeably in Kent and Sussex. In Surrey, Hampshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire they are called hop kilns.

They consist of a rectangular one- or two-storey building (the "stowage") and one or more kilns in which the hops were spread out to be dried by hot air rising from a wood or charcoal fire below. The drying floors were thin and perforated to permit the heat to pass through and escape through a cowl in the roof which turned with the wind. The freshly picked hops from the fields were raked in to dry and then raked out to cool before being bagged up and sent to the brewery. The Kentish dialect word kell was sometimes used for kilns ("The oast has three kells") and sometimes to mean the oast itself ("Take this lunchbox to your father, he's working in the kell"). The word oast itself also means "kiln".

The earliest surviving oast house is at Golford, Cranbrook near Tunbridge Wells. It dates from sometime in the 17th century and closely mirrors the first documentary evidence on oasts soon after the introduction of hops into England in the mid-16th century. Early oast houses were simply adapted barns, but, by the 18th century, the distinctive tall buildings with conical roofs had been developed to increase the draught. At first, these were square, but around 1800 roundel kilns were developed in the belief that they were more efficient. Square kilns remained more popular in Herefordshire and Worcestershire and came back into fashion in the southeast in the later 19th century. In the 1930s, the cowls were replaced by louvred openings as electric fans and diesel oil ovens were employed.

Hops are today dried industrially and the many oast houses on farms have now been converted into dwellings. One of the best-preserved oast house complexes is at the Hop Farm Country Park at Beltring.

Examples of use of Oast
1. The main house, named The Oast House, is worth at least 1.5million.
2. For its 3,500 inhabitants, the allure of East Peckham has always been peace, rural gentility and a Darling Buds of May– style landscape of Victorian oast houses.
3. Of Kent, the Garden of England, the forecast says: Oast houses and barns survive as charming commercial premises or themed restaurants, and increasingly pitifully few remaining ancient orchards only serve to emphasise what has been lost.
4. Thousands of other farm buildings stables, oast houses and dovecotes are also in a dilapidated state and one in ten farmers admits ownership of a building in need of repair, Dr Thurley said in the latest Heritage Counts report, which was published yesterday.
5. Scroll down for more New oast, same attitude: Mr Ashcroft ten years on David Ashcroft at the time of his win Now aged 40, he still lives in the same house with his parents and spends most of his days working as a furniture restorer, the job for which he trained as a teenager.