Nos 8 and 9 High Street. Grade II*. (TQ 76035576 - OS 1:2500 1958). Built in 1827. (1) Additional bibliography. (2)

Description from record TQ 75 NE 711:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HIGH STREET 1. 5278 (North-West Side) Nos 8 & 9 TQ 7655 NW 2/3 30.7.5l. II* GV
2. Built in 1827 by John Whichcord Senior as the Royal Insurance Offices. A fine building of Portland stone, the ground floor rusticated. 3 storeys. 8 engaged fluted Ionic columns rise through the 1st and 2nd floors supporting the entablature. Parapet above with elaborate cartouche over the centre of it, surmounted by a helmet. 7 sashes, 1st and 2nd floor windows are set in moulded architrave surrounds with glazing bars intact. The ground floor has large windows with segmental heads (now containing plate glass) and 2 archways at the west end, of equal size, forming a passageway through the building into market buildings, are for pedestrians and 1 for vehicles. These arches are supported on 4 Tuscan columns.
Nos 1, 3 & 5 to 9 (consec) form a group Also forms a group with the Mitre Public House, Market Buildings. Listing NGR: TQ7603255757 (3)

Historic England archive material: BF086514 8-9, HIGH STREET, MAIDSTONE

<1> DOE(HHR)Dist of Maidstone Kent Aug 1974 40 (OS Card Reference). SKE41328.

<2> Bldgs of Eng West Kent and the Weald 1980 411 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38072.

<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.