Listed Building record TQ 75 NE 568 - 25, 25A AND 25B GABRIEL'S HILL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1567 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TQ 7615 5569 (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:
MAIDSTONE GABRIEL'S HILL TQ 7655 NW 2/30 Nos 25, 25A, 25B. GV II
2 shops and an office. Late C16 timber-framed building refronted in early to mid C19 and refenestrated and altered internally in C20. Clad in stucco with incised lines to imitate masonry. Old tiled roof with parapet and wooden cornice. 3 storeys 2 windows. C20 casements to 2nd floor and mullioned and transomed case- ments to 1st floor. Ground floor has C20 shop fronts. Rear elevation has original gable to right obscured by a later, probably C19, addition with gable. Interior has late C16 roof, one side mainly retaining original rafters the other side mainly renewed in soft wood. 2 chamfered tie beams with lambs tongue steps. Otherwise the interior has been modernized with false ceilings and some broad beams which may contain earlier boxed in beams. the top of the wall plate is vis- ible in the roof and the rest of the wall frame is probably embedded in the wall.
Listing NGR: TQ7615355698


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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM