Oasthouse Approximately 12 Metres North West of Lydd Farmhouse
OASTHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH WEST OF LYDD FARMHOUSE, SYCHEM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261771
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Oasthouse Approximately 12 Metres North West of Lydd Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OASTHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH WEST OF LYDD FARMHOUSE, SYCHEM LANE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261771
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Oasthouse Approximately 12 Metres North West of Lydd Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OASTHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH WEST OF LYDD FARMHOUSE, SYCHEM LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OASTHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH WEST OF LYDD FARMHOUSE, SYCHEM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Capel
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 64434 44768
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436712
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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