Playden Oasts

The Playden Oast Inn,one of the very few oast house's open to the public, due to most being converted to private properties.

The Oast believed to have been built in 1800, has had a varied history. Once owned by the Mathews family, it was used as a working oast house to dry locally grown hops for the production of real ale.

During the Oast's life it has survived two fires : one being on bonfire night 1970 and the other in the early 80's due to some soldering of copper pipes being done in the attic.

The Mathews family sold the Oast in 1971 for a mere £9000 ! Throughout the years, the Oast has been a private motel then later becoming the hotel it is today.