GROVE COTTAGE

Grove Cottage, Western Link, Faversham, ME13 7UA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1069425
Date first listed:: 03-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: GROVE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: Grove Cottage, Western Link, Faversham, ME13 7UA

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Date:: 2002-10-07
Reference:: IOE01/08515/26
Rights:: © Norman Wigg. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1069425
Date first listed:: 03-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: GROVE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: Grove Cottage, Western Link, Faversham, ME13 7UA

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:: Grove Cottage, Western Link, Faversham, ME13 7UA

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

County:: Kent
District:: Swale (District Authority)
Parish:: Faversham
National Grid Reference:: TR 00577 62703

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/09/2014

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FAVERSHAM, WESTERN LINK, Grove Cottage

(Formerly listed as Nos 1 & 2 (Grove Cottages) , OARE ROAD (West Side), DAVINGTON)

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Pair of cottages on gunpowder works, now one house. Early/mid C18, altered late C19. Brick footings, weatherboarded timber frame above, central ridge stack and tiled half-hipped roof.

PLAN: Single-depth plan with rear outshut.

EXTERIOR: 2 storey - 4 window range, formerly each house of 2 windows, with central doorway, now only right-hand survives; 6/6-pane casements, with 4/4-pane casements in 4 hipped dormers.

INTERIOR: Altered 1990s.

HISTORY: The Oare Gunpowder Works was working from the C18 and underwent continuous development until 1936 when it closed. It included three houses at the NE end occupied by staff of the Works, which are the only surviving standing remains of the C18 Works.

(Cocroft, W, 'Oare Gunpowder Works', Faversham Papers in association with RCHME, N° 39, p28, 1994; Percival, A J, 'The Faversham Gunpowder Industry and its development', Faversham Papers, N° 4 3rd Ed. 1986)

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 175952
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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