Meister Omers

Meister Omers, 16, The Cathedral Precincts

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1336827
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:: Meister Omers
Statutory Address:: Meister Omers, 16, The Cathedral Precincts

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1336827
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:: Meister Omers
Statutory Address 1:: Meister Omers, 16, The Cathedral Precincts

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Meister Omers, 16, The Cathedral Precincts

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Canterbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TR 15244 57920

Details

TR 1557 NW 5/10

THE CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS No 16 (Meister Omers) 3.12.49.

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C19 exterior to an early C15 building which was originally a lodging for the Prior's guests. Rebuilt 1399 and decorated early C15; C19 remodelling. Two storeys and attics, flint faced with stone quoins. Steeply pitched tiled roof with five hipped dormers. Buttresses. Mullioned and transomed windows. Medieval work in the south-west corner and at the back; stone quoins, a blocked arch and C15 windows. The interior has Elizabethan wall paintings. Thought to have the widest medieval fireplace in England (over 18 feet wide).

Listing NGR: TR1524157923

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Legacy System number:: 170550
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.