Listed Building: WREN'S CROSS (1225554)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 883, 7, 60
Date assigned 30 July 1951
Date last amended

Description

TQ 7655 SW UPPER STONE STREET (West side) 883/7/60 Wren's Cross 30.07.1951 GV II House, later part of council offices. Early Cl9. Mainly stock brick but south front red brick with hipped slate roof with two brick chimneystacks. 2 storeys; 2 windows and central blank facing Upper Stone Street and 2 windows facing Knightrider Street. Parapet. Painted stringcourse. Mainly tripartite windows with glazing bays intact. The ground floor windows are set in elliptical arches. Doorcase with engaged fluted Doric columns, triglyph frieze, rectangular fanlight and 6 panel door. On the front facing Knightrider Street one window bay has a curved front through two storeys. South front is of brown brick with cross-shaped iron ties and doorcase with cornice and brackets. The interior has a curved wooden well staircase with stick balusters and skylight, hall arch with foliate brackets, rectangular fanlight to former rear door, some six-panelled doors and cupboards and some fireplace surrounds. The later C19 red brick police accomodation extension to the west is not of special interest. Listing NGR: TQ7623255361

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7624 5535 (point)
Map sheet TQ75NE
Civil Parish MAIDSTONE, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM