Listed Building record TR 06 SW 1453 - OYSTER BAY HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1823 to 1866

Location

Grid reference TR 0212 6203 (point)
Map sheet TR06SW
District SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish FAVERSHAM, SWALE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
In the entry for:
IRON WHARF TR 06 SW 'The Big Building' 4/220 (Warehouse immediately north east of Standard House) - II
the address shall be amended to read:
TR 06 SW IRON WHARF 4/220 Oyster Bay House - II
The following building shall be added to the list: IRON WHARF 1. 1103 TR 06 SW 4/220 'The Big Building' (Warehouse immediately north east of Standard House) II
Warehouse. Circa mid C19, said to have been built circa 1843 when the creek was improved. Buff-coloured stock brick. Welsh slate roof with gabled ends and brick dentil eaves cornice. Plan: Rectangular on plan. Its north end to the creek has a hoist and a doorway at each floor for loading/unloading. There is also a hoist and doorway at each floor level at the opposite south end. Exterior: 3 storeys, the second storey partly in the roof space. 5- bay east and west sides and 3-bay north and south ends, the bays divided by brick pilasters, those at the ends clasping the corners. Segmental brick arch openings with original 16-pane cast-iron windows which have bosses at the inter- sections of the glazing bars. There is a doorway on the ground floor at right of the west side with an original door and a wider doorway at the centre of the east side. The gable ends have a central doorway on each floor with plank double doors, the ground floor doorway on the south end enlarged later and on the gables at both ends a weatherboarded timber-framed hoist housing containing old hoist mechanisms; the hoist housing at the north end rises above the main roof level. Interior: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TR0212462038


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