Description

ALTON
SU 3039
903/2/10007
Oasthouses immediately west of Will Hall Farmhouse

GV II

Oasthouse. Circa early-mid C19, incorporating earlier fabric. Ped brick with weatherboarded timber-frame superstructure; NW end and kiln walls inside partly of coursed stone. Welsh slate roof, gabled at front and back; and with four steeply-pitched hipped kiln roofs, their louvred wooden ventilators missing.. PLAN: Rectangular on plan four kilns with kiln passages along front and back with spread floors above. EXTERIOR: 4-bay gabled SW front with four doorways on brick ground floor and weatherboarded first floor with alternating loading doors and windows. Gabled at rear NE; and along centre a row of four steeply-pitched hipped kiln roofs, their louvred wooden ventilators removed. INTERIOR: In kiln-passage small cambered arch stoke-openings to the kilns. Spread floors above have larger hatch doors to kilns. Kilns have iron grilles and plastered flues.
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Listing NGR: SU7092839639

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537501

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)