Ploggs Hall Oast

This is an oasthouse, dating from the early to mid-19th century, and converted into two houses around 1980. It is constructed of red brick, with some burnt headers arranged in Monk and Flemish bonds. The front wall is timber-framed and clad with weatherboards. The former stowage has a peg-tile roof, while the kilns have roofs of coated brick. Originally facing east-northeast, the oasthouse’s stowage is roughly square in plan and had parallel roofs, originally featuring an open arcade across the front. There are four hop kilns at the back and a fifth at the south end, belonging to Ploggs Hall. The building has been divided into two similar houses from front to back; Number 1 is to the right (south) and Number 2 to the left. The former stowage stands two storeys high.

The front first floor has the original arrangement of six windows, three on either side of a plain plank loading hatch door. All windows are 20th-century casements. The ground floor arcade still has open bays, providing a central entrance porch to each house, with the centre bays now forming garages. Other windows in the side walls have segmental arch heads. The roofs are hipped at both ends. The circular hop kilns have cogged brick cornices, tall conical roofs and cowls.

Inside, original carpentry detail remains, including a roof structure of A-frame trusses with mortise, tenoned and pegged collars. Number 1 retains the hop press, which has been moved to the ground floor.

This converted oasthouse forms a group with a nearby converted barn and Ploggs Hall.