Description

SO 4863 LUSTON CP MAIN STREET (east side)

12/69 Hop kiln and rooms about
10 metres west of
Lustonbury

GV II

Hop kiln and adjoining hop rooms. C17, remodelled early C19, restored 1980's.
Timber-frame with rendered infill and coursed rubble, altered in brick with
tiled and corrugated iron roof. Four bays aligned east/west, extended to
west by a further two bays including the hop kiln. North front of two
storeys, the C17 part to right with a single small loft door. To left of
centre a tall entrance with a pair of doors, to right an ordinary ledged and
boarded door, to left an C17 window with chamfered wooden architrave in
rubble wall. The hop kiln to the left of this range has a long roof vent on
the ridge and a semi-circular headed window. Entrance on ground floor has
a plain wooden architrave and ledged and boarded door. To extreme left a
bay of C19 framing on a rubble ground floor. Framing is mainly three square
panels high and the gables have diagonal framing. Interior of hop kiln has
a slatted floor; the C17 portion has chamfered and stopped ceiling beams.
(RCHM, 3, p 140, no 23).

Listing NGR: SO4879262618

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26460652

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)