Listed Building: THE GREEN LION HOTEL (1267789)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 686-1, 8, 103
Date assigned 24 February 1950
Date last amended

Description

GILLINGHAM TQ86NW HIGH STREET, Rainham 686-1/8/103 (South side) 24/02/50 No.104 The Green Lion Hotel GV II Public house. C17 or earlier, partly refronted early C18, extended early-mid C20. Reported to be timber-framed, cased in English bond brick, painted to front and sides, brick ridge, end and rear lateral stacks and tiled hipped roof. PLAN: single-depth with rear single storey C20 extensions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement; 8-window range. Near-symmetrical front has a plinth, moulded plat band, and moulded coping to parapet on 3 sides. Left of centre doorway has a bracketed timber pediment, architrave and C20 panelled door, and a blocked left-hand doorway with an architrave. Mid-late C19 paired 6/6-pane sashes either side of central doorway; the other windows are C18 6/6-pane sashes in exposed frames, regularly spaced, with left-hand first-floor sash set apart; 3 gabled dormers. Rear has a central hipped stair tower, tile-hung above the eaves, with a left-hand hip to a vestigial wing with a central stack and sashes each side. INTERIOR: altered on the ground floor mid C20; central rear dogleg stair has early C19 rail, with elliptical arches each side. HISTORY: asymmetrical entrance and fenestration suggest an earlier date, which a more detailed examination might clarify. Listing NGR: TQ8182165862

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 8182 6586 (point)
Map sheet TQ86NW
Civil Parish GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 5:35PM