Crow Plain Oast
CROW PLAIN OAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389710
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Crow Plain Oast
- Statutory Address:
- CROW PLAIN OAST
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389710
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Crow Plain Oast
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROW PLAIN OAST
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:
- CROW PLAIN OAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Collier Street
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 71088 47357
Details
YALDING
1417/0/10005 Crow Plain Oast
08-FEB-02
GV II
Oast House. Stowage and two west kilns circa 1850. Northern kiln added circa 1880. Side and rear walls of stowage and kilns of red brick, front wall of stowage weatherboarded. Kiln roofs tiled but stowage roof now clad in corrugated iron sheeting.
EXTERIOR: Stowage is of two storeys five bays. Side facing road and rear have one window. Front has weatherboared upper floor and open ground floor with chamfered supports on stone padstones. Wooden exterior staircase to first floor. Attached to the stowage are three circular kilns with dentil cornices and cylindrical tiled roofs incorporating an unusual ventilation course. Fibreglass cowls and wooden fantails with carving of a crow painted black, a pun on the name of the oast house. Early C20 wooden staging built to south and to the west. Attached to the east is a one storey former open cart shed also of brick , the front wall now filled-in with breezeblocks and with corrugated iron roof.
INTERIOR: Stowage roof is queenpost with purlins and ridgepiece. Lattice screen to east. Front wall has stencilled numbers of hop pockets produced each year dating back to 1957. C20 hop press. Kilns retain slatted drying floors. Arched entrances to plenum chambers on ground floor.
HISTORY: Originally part of Crow Plain Farm.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488437
- 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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