Oast Building At Foxbury Farm

This is a late 19th-century oast building located at Foxbury Farm. It’s constructed of close-jointed random ragstone. The central block is three storeys high with three windows. It has a tiled roof with a brick cornice. Six round oasts are attached, two at each end and two behind. These are built of similar masonry and originally had conical tiled roofs; some are now low-pitched, but the southern pair retain their taller roofs and cowls. The front of the building is symmetrical. Each end features a door on every floor, with the upper doors set beneath weatherboarded gablets that break the eaves. A loading door is situated at first floor level in the centre, above a cart entrance. Low, triangular heads are found above this loading door, as well as above the first-floor windows and ground-floor openings. The second-floor windows are segment-headed and contain square-paned casements. Elaborate iron hinges are fitted to the plank doors.