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Type of kiln

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As a result, Australia's rabbit population has doubled in the oast several years.
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The earliest surviving purpose built oast is at Golford, Cranbrook, built in 1750.
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This is a particularly elegant oast house, which comes with an adjacent barn.
From the telegraph.co.uk
These would be taken to the oast and brought into the stowage at first floor level.
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The oast houses went silent, to become first a tea room and then an exhibition space.
From the denverpost.com
I work in a converted oast house which is normally plagued with spiders and their webs.
From the newscientist.com
The New Norfolk oast was converted from a watermill and is now a museum.
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In the early nineteenth century, the traditional oast as we now know it started to be built.
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It persists like the pungent atmosphere of an oast house drying floor, nowhere more than in Kent.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • A kiln for drying hops
  • An oast, oast house or hop kiln is a building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process. They can be found in most hop-growing (and former hop-growing) areas and are often good examples of vernacular architecture. Many redundant oasts have been converted into houses.
  • Oasts are creatures which appear to be very tall humans with blonde hair and blue eyes, but are actually no more intelligent than livestock, and are kept as such. Some tribes to the north of Ascolais use them as food, mounts, and beasts of burden.