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