Listed Building: FREMLINS OFFICES (INCLUDING EAST WING AND BILLIARD ROOM) (1069489)

Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 659, 1, 30
Date assigned 29 July 1950
Date last amended

Description

In the entry for:- COURT STREET TR 0161 NE (east side) 1/30 Whitbread Fremlin's Offices 29.7.50 (formerly listed as Messrs George Beer and Rigden's Offices) - II* The entry shall be amended to read:- TR 0161 NE FAVERSHAM COURT STREET 1/30 Fremlins Offices (including East Wing and Billiard Room) GV II* This building apparently has no name or number. C18 front to a C16 house, retaining the overhang of the first floor on a moulded bressummer. 2 storeys and attic. 5 windows. 3 round-headed dormers. Ground floor ashlar, now rendered; first floor yellow mathematical tiles. Wooden modillion cornice. Brick parapet with coping. Glazing bars intact. First floor windows triple windows. 4 small bays on the ground floor with projecting cornices below over- hang of first floor. Doorway with engaged Ionic columns, enriched frieze, panelled reveals, semi-circular fanlight and projecting cornice beneath the overhang of the first floor and 6-panel moulded door, the top 2 panels cut away and glazed. Photograph in NMR. East wing has a C18 core but the exterior is early to mid C19. Red brick in Flemish bond. Slate roof with 3 brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 4 windows, mainly tripartite sashes. Later bay and fire escape. It is possible that this building may have been part of an earlier brewery before the later C19 brewery buildings were erected. Attached to the north is a billiard room of c.1910. Large square l-storeyed red brick build- ing. Front has 4 pilasters with stone coping and round-headed feature above. Pilasters and moulded brick cornice. Rainwater head with floral swag. 2 x 4 bays. Side elevation has brick and slate porch with cambered door. Chimney- stack to rear with scroll-work surround. Interior has arched granite fireplace with oak surround and oak panelling. COURT STREET 1. 110 (East Side) Whitbread Fremlin's Offices (formerly listed as Messrs George Beer and Rigden's Offices) TR 0161 NE 1/30 29.7.50. II* 2. This building apparently has no name or number. C18 front to a C16 house, retaining the overhang of the lst floor on a moulded bressummer. 2 storeys and attic. 5 windows. 3 round-headed dormers. Ground floor ashlar, now rendered; 1st floor yellow mathematical tiles: Wooden modillion cornice. Brick parapet with coping. Glazing bars intact. 1st floor windows triple windows. 4 small bays on the ground floor with projecting cornices below overhang of 1st floor. Doorway with engaged Ionic columns, enriched frieze, panelled reveals, semi-circular fanlight and projecting cornice beneath the overhang of the 1st floor and 6-panel moulded door, the top 2 panels cut away and glazed. Photograph in NMR. Listing NGR: TR0166361512

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 0166 6151 (point)
Map sheet TR06SW
Civil Parish FAVERSHAM, SWALE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 6:00PM