Sir John Franklin

Sir John Franklin, High Street, Greenhithe, DA9 9NN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1085785
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:: Sir John Franklin
Statutory Address:: Sir John Franklin, High Street, Greenhithe, DA9 9NN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1085785
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:: Sir John Franklin
Statutory Address 1:: Sir John Franklin, High Street, Greenhithe, DA9 9NN

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:: Sir John Franklin, High Street, Greenhithe, DA9 9NN

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

County:: Kent
District:: Dartford (District Authority)
Parish:: Swanscombe and Greenhithe
National Grid Reference:: TQ5863075169

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 February 2023 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 5875 SE 9/98

SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE Greenhithe HIGH STREET (north side) Sir John Franklin

(Formerly listed as The White Hart Public House)

II

Circa 1840 but may incorporate earlier core. Two parallel ranges. The front range is the earliest. Two storeys yellow brick, the front stuccoed. Hipped renewed tiled roof. Four C19 sashes. Later weather porch. Rear range of circa 1800 with mid C19 porch. This range has an early C19 fireplace with wheat drop swags.

Sir John Franklin the explorer spent his last night at here before setting off on 19 June 1845 to find the north-west passage, a trip from which he never returned. In 1661 the Sir John Franklin was connected with a notorious murder of a prince of Transylvania by Isaac Jacob and Camirus Kargagi. They drove from Gads Hill the scene of the crime to the Sir John Franklin, then known as the Kings Head in their master's carriage but were caught here and later hung.

Listing NGR: TQ5863075169

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Legacy System number:: 172735
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.