Oasthouse Approximately 12 Metres North West Of Lydd Farmhouse

TQ 64 SW CAPEL SYCHEM LANE, FIVE OAK GREEN

5/288 Oasthouse approx 12m north 9.5.90 west of Lydd Farmhouse

GV II

Oasthouse. Mid/late C19. Red brick, end wall of stowage is timber-framed clad with weatherboards; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Small oasthouse. Stowage faces south west with single hop kiln on left (north west) end.

Exterior: One-window front, one each floor roughly central, a first floor C19 9-pane sash and ground floor C20 casement with glazing bars under a low segmental arch. To left a doorway to each floor, one over the other, and both containing plank doors. Secondary timber-framed loading platform in front under a corrugated iron monopitch roof. It has ladder access. Roof is half- hipped to right end. This end wall has double plank doors for cart access to ground floor and small fixed pane window above. Hop kiln is circular in plan with cogged brick cornice and tall conical roof surmounted by a box-like ventilation system with pitched roof (for oil-fired hop drying).

Interior: Has plain but sturdy carpentry detail.

This unconverted oast is still in working order and forms part of an unusually attractive group of farmbuildings around Lydd Farmhouse (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ6444244744