Building record TR 06 SW 1505 - Watch House, Marsh Gunpowder Works

A detached watch house, associated with the gate house of Marsh Gunpowder Works and probably of the same date (both were there by 1840). (1)

Watch house at the Marsh Gunpowder Works, constructed by 1920 and shown on a plan of the works by Nobels Explosives Co. Ltd in 1920 as building 103. A survey as part of the RCHME Faversham's Explosives Industry Project in 1991, found the building extant but partially derelict (Building 13 - RCHME ground photographs 164/H/5 and 164/K/25). It was a single storey brick building with a tiled roof. A wooden lantern at the apex of the roof may have acted as a lookout postion. (1-2)

Historic England archve material: 662290 Faversham Explosives Industry, Kent In 1991, RCHME Keele carried out a basic investigation of the remains of the gunpowder and explosives industry in Faversham as a background to the Oare Gunpowder Works survey and to enhance the NMR record.Contents : 4 plans, ground photography, 68 prints, supporting materialCondition : SATISFACTORY
943688 Marsh Gunpowder Works/ink survey Antiquity Model: Surveyed

<1> Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd, 2019, Historic Building Recording of the Marsh Gunpowder Works within the Former Oare Mineral Works, Faversham, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE54278.

<2> 1992, KAR 108, 1992, p 190 (Article in serial). SKE54237.