Listed Building record TQ 75 NE 619 - WREN'S CROSS

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1832

Location

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

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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


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

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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM