Listed Building record TQ 75 NE 85 - 8 and 9 High Street.

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:
TQ 7655 NW 2/3

HIGH STREET (North-West Side) Nos 8 and 9

30.7.5l.

GV II*

Built in 1827 by John Whichcord Senior as the Kent Fire Office, later used as the Royal Insurance Offices. A fine building of Portland stone, the ground floor rusticated. Three storeys. Eight engaged fluted Ionic columns rise through the first and second floors supporting the entablature. Parapet above with elaborate cartouche over the centre of it, surmounted by a helmet. Seven sashes, first and second 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 two archways at the west end, of equal size, forming a passageway through the building into market buildings, are for pedestrians and one for vehicles. These arches are supported on four 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.