| 21. | In 1982, the Oast Theatre was awarded Civic Design Award from Tonbridge Civic Society.
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| 22. | The building became an oast house.
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| 23. | The lane is surrounded by orchards and has an oast house, similar to Norton Road.
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| 24. | One of the best preserved oast house complexes is at The Hop Farm Country Park at Beltring.
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| 25. | The earliest surviving purpose built oast is at Golford, cowl in the ridge of the roof.
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| 26. | Behind Wickhambreaux Court is the Wickham Court Oast, which is all that remains of a farm.
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| 27. | Hops are today dried industrially and the many oast houses on farms have now been converted into dwellings.
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| 28. | In the early nineteenth century, the traditional oast as we now know it started to be built.
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| 29. | Other conversions of oasts for non-residential purposes include a theatre ( Whitbread Hop Farm at Beltring.
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| 30. | Square oast houses appeared early in the 20th century as they were found to be easier to build.
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