Listed Building record TQ 86 NW 1171 - EAST MOOR STREET COTTAGES

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1433 to 1932

Location

Grid reference TQ 8293 6556 (point)
Map sheet TQ86NW
County KENT
Civil Parish GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT
Unitary Authority MEDWAY

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:

GILLINGHAM
TQ86NW MOOR STREET, Rainham 686-1/8/113 (South side) 21/12/73 Nos 1 AND 2 East Moor Street Cottages (Formerly Listed as: MOOR STREET, Rainham (South West side) Nos.1 AND 2 East Moor Street Farm)
II
House, now two. Mid-late C15, altered C16, extended to rear early C20. Timber-frame, partly cased in brick, with weatherboarding, brick ridge stacks and hipped tiled roof with small gablets and rear catslide. PLAN: Wealden plan with C18 continuous rear outshut and E rear C20 wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Left-hand brick section, centre and right weatherboarded. Central recessed entrance and C20 door, 3-light C20 casements, 2 to the left of the entrance, and C20 windows in the end returns. Rear has a pair of mid C20 large hipped dormers over the stairs, with single casements, above a C20 full width continuous outshut, and an E gabled wing with a lateral C20 stack. INTERIOR: central hall divided by late C16/early C17 axial moulded beam, with a large lateral fireplace in the rear wall of the right-hand room; dogleg stair extends back from the central room. HISTORY: probably originally a Wealden-type house with jettied front and recessed middle bay, with the central open hall floored and the left-hand ridge stack inserted C16, and refronted and the jetty underbuilt C20.
Listing NGR: TQ8280465600


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