THE CRANE HOUSE THE STOCKS OUTSIDE THE TOWN HALL THE TOWN HALL
Overview
- 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:
- THE CRANE HOUSE, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE STOCKS OUTSIDE THE TOWN HALL, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWN HALL, KING STREET
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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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171149
- 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.
End of official listing
