The Maison Dieu Museum
THE MAISON DIEU MUSEUM, 17, OSPRINGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069431
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Maison Dieu Museum
- Statutory Address:
- THE MAISON DIEU MUSEUM, 17, OSPRINGE STREET
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- 2002-07-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/06996/23
- Rights:
- © Norman Wigg. Source: Historic England Archive
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069431
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Maison Dieu Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MAISON DIEU MUSEUM, 17, OSPRINGE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE MAISON DIEU MUSEUM, 17, OSPRINGE STREET
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 00362 60855
Details
OSPRINGE STREET 1. ll03 (South Side) --------------- No 17 (The Maison Dieu Museum) TR 0060 11/171 29.7.50. II* GV
2. This building is the most substantial surviving portion of the medieval Maison Dieu Hospital, founded in 1230. It was at one time a public house, but is now scheduled as an Ancient Monument and is used as a small Museum. It is a building with Cl3 base and early C16 timber-framed lst floor overhanging on the protruding ends of the floor joists on both the North and East sides. The North front slopes downhill from East to West. 2 storeys. 2 windows. Ground floor has been rebuilt in red brick on the North front, but on the East front is of flints with 2 narrow windows, medieval. The lst floor has the timbering exposed on the North and East fronts. Casement windows. Hipped tiled roof. Doorway in splayed angle. Chimney breast at the West end of the North front with a blocked arch in it. AM.
Nos 1 to l9 (odd) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR0036260855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175959
- 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.
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