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THE CRANE HOUSE THE STOCKS OUTSIDE THE TOWN HALL THE TOWN HALL

THE CRANE HOUSE, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1085670
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1952
Statutory Address:: THE CRANE HOUSE, KING STREET

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Date:: 02 Mar 2002
Reference:: IOE01/06010/10
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1085670
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Mar-1980
Statutory Address 1:: THE CRANE HOUSE, KING STREET
Statutory Address 2:: THE STOCKS OUTSIDE THE TOWN HALL, KING STREET
Statutory Address 3:: THE TOWN HALL, KING STREET

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:: THE CRANE HOUSE, KING STREET
Statutory Address:: THE STOCKS OUTSIDE THE TOWN HALL, KING STREET
Statutory Address:: THE TOWN HALL, KING STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Canterbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Fordwich
National Grid Reference:: TR 18047 59814

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/02/2012

TR 1859 27/225 5273 29.9.52 30.1.67

FORDWICH KING STREET (north side) The Town Hall and The Crane House, with the stocks outside the Town Hall

GV II*

Fordwich is associated with the Cinque Ports as a limb of Sandwich and was a Corporation by prescription until it was deprived of its municipal status by the Municipal Corporations Act 1883. The Town Hall comprised a storeroom and prison on the ground floor and the court room and jury room over. It is probably an early C15 building, and there is evidence that it was extensively repaired in 1474. Timber framed building, the ground floor rebuilt in brick, stone rubble and flints. The first floor is close studded with herringbone brick nagging on the east and south sides and plaster infilling on the west side, all three oversailing on a moulded bressumer and brackets with a red brick buttress giving support at the south east corner. Steeply-pitched hipped tile roof. Casement windows of four lights with 4-centred heads, wooden mullions, diamond-shaped leaded panes and old green glass. Two storeys, One window each facing east, south and north. The tiny prison on the ground floor retains its bed, while the wooden stocks are placed in the forecourt to the south. The court room above also has its original fittings and a crownpost roof. To the north is an addition of tarred weatherboarding with a tiled roof. This was the Crane House. The north gable end facing the river Stour is jettied. At the north east angle is a swinging post with a cross-piece like a gallows, from which a large hook is suspended for the raising and lowering of goods.

Listing NGR: TR1804759814

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

Legacy System number:: 171149
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.