Summary
Oast house of early to mid C19 date.
Reasons for Designation
The oast house 20 metres south-east of Wyck Cottage, of early to mid C19 date, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: this is a distinctive regional agricultural building type built of vernacular materials with a readable plan form, exterior wooden loading door and ventilation shutters, and retaining its interior joinery including its roof structure;
* Intactness: the oast house is little altered externally and retains many original internal fittings and fixtures;
* Group value: with an adjoining listed former farm house in a hamlet with some other listed farm buildings;
* Rarity: oast houses as a building type are a comparative rarity in East Sussex and this one is particularly rare because it is unconverted and retains its wooden slatted drying floor to the hop kiln.
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History
The oast house is shown on the 1874 First Edition 25'' Ordnance Survey map, together with the main house, Wyck Cottage, at that date shown as Wick Farm. Until the 1980s the property was part of the Bayham Abbey Estate owned by Lord Camden.
Details
Oast house of early to mid C19 date. There are some C20 casements, mainly within earlier openings, and a C20 lean-to greenhouse is attached at the south-west end. The greenhouse is not of special interest.
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