Oast House, Wickhurst Farm

WADHURST COUSLEY WOOD 1. 5208 Oast House, Wickhurst Farm TQ 63 NW 8/365 II G.V. 2. Oast house. Circa 1840 with later additions and alterations. Red brick, timber frame with weatherboarded cladding. Hipped and half hipped plain tile roof. Two storey double pile stowage range with pitched roofs half hipped at west end, 3 cylindrical kilns: a larger and a smaller diameter kiln at the east end and a large diameter kiln adjoining the centre of the north side of the stowage range. The larger kiln at the east end roofed with a hipped continuation of the pitched roof on the north side of the stowage range. The smaller kiln has a tiled cone with timber cowl and vane. Kiln on the north side reduced to eaves level and covered with a flat corrugated iron roof. West end of stowage range timber framed with weatherboarded cladding to first floor above ground floor cart entries with double boarded doors to right side; on first floor a 3-light casement in lefthand gable wall and a central loft door with flanking 2-light casement to right and window aperture to left in right hand gable wall, other walls have small single or 2 light casements. Listed for group value only.

Listing NGR: TQ6387835337