Hop Kiln And Rooms About 10 Metres West Of Lustonbury

SO 4863 LUSTON CP MAIN STREET (east side)

12/69 Hop kiln and rooms about 10 metres west of Lustonbury

GV II

Hop kiln and adjoining hop rooms. C17, remodelled early C19, restored 1980's. Timber-frame with rendered infill and coursed rubble, altered in brick with tiled and corrugated iron roof. Four bays aligned east/west, extended to west by a further two bays including the hop kiln. North front of two storeys, the C17 part to right with a single small loft door. To left of centre a tall entrance with a pair of doors, to right an ordinary ledged and boarded door, to left an C17 window with chamfered wooden architrave in rubble wall. The hop kiln to the left of this range has a long roof vent on the ridge and a semi-circular headed window. Entrance on ground floor has a plain wooden architrave and ledged and boarded door. To extreme left a bay of C19 framing on a rubble ground floor. Framing is mainly three square panels high and the gables have diagonal framing. Interior of hop kiln has a slatted floor; the C17 portion has chamfered and stopped ceiling beams. (RCHM, 3, p 140, no 23).

Listing NGR: SO4879262618