Listed Building record TQ 57 NE 1100 - Nos 17, 19 and 21, Greenhithe High Street

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5274 SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE HIGH STREET (south side) Greenhithe
Nos 17, 19 and 21 TQ 5875 SE 9/92
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2. 1819. No 19 was originally a congregational church, now a paint brush factory. Nos 17 and 21 were probably built as cottages for the vergers. No 19 is of 2 storeys flint-faced with red brick dressings. Gable end with brick modillion cornice. Circular blank window opening. Two pointed arched windows on the first floor. The ground floor has a slated pentice porch with central pointed window and 2 pointed headed doorcases. Plinth. The interior has a gallery supported on their cast iron columns. The ceiling has 2 domes and there are 2 round headed blank arches on each side wall. The flanking cottages are 2 storeys built of squared knapped flints with rough flint dressings. Gable. Pilasters run the whole height of the building. One sash each with pointed arched windows and ogee-arched doorcases.
Listing NGR: TQ5874075132

Congregational chapel built in 1801 but enlargd or rebuilt in 1819. It is set between two cottages which were probably built as verger's cottages. No 19 was originally the congregational church, now a paint brush factory. Nos 17 and 21 were probably built as cottages for the vergers. No 19 is of 2 storeys flint-faced with red brick dressings. Gable end with brick modillion cornice. Circular blank window opening. Two pointed arched windows on the first floor. The ground floor has a slated pentice porch with central pointed window and 2 pointed headed doorcases. Plinth. The interior has a gallery supported on their cast iron columns. The ceiling has 2 domes and there are 2 round headed blank arches on each side wall. The flanking cottages are 2 storeys built of squared knapped flints with rough flint dressings. Gable. Pilasters run the whole height of the building. (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Christopher Stell, 2002, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Eastern England (Bibliographic reference). SKE58544.