My wife and I took a short trip to Kent recently with the intent of being oasty and toasty by the coast. So, I created a scenic gallery, which apparently requires you to install Microsoft Silverlight to get the full effect of the slideshow with colorized backgrounds to each slide, although you can just click on the thumbnails to see the photos without the slideshow.
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. Oast from Latin for summer, heat.