Former Vicarage

The Apex, Queen Street, Gillingham, SP8 4DX

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1110336
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:: Former Vicarage
Statutory Address:: The Apex, Queen Street, Gillingham, SP8 4DX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1110336
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1960
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: Former Vicarage
Statutory Address 1:: The Apex, Queen Street, Gillingham, SP8 4DX

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 Apex, Queen Street, Gillingham, SP8 4DX

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Gillingham
National Grid Reference:: ST 80690 26563

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 April 2023 to amend the name and address and to remove superfluous amendment details and reformat the text to current standards

ST 8026 12/122

GILLINGHAM QUEEN STREET The Apex

(Formerly listed as HIGH STREET (north side), Rawson Court, previously listed as Rawson Court, (the part that was formerly the Vicarage listed as Vicarage outbuildings)

16.8.60.

GV II

Vicarage, now part of old people's home. 1883, by E Swinfen Harris (Newman and Pevsner). Coursed rubble walls with brick bonding courses Ashlar dressings. Hipped tiled roofs with moulded brick stacks in various locations. An irregular Arts and Crafts influenced design. Two storeys. Seven irregular window range. Right of centre is a two window range projecting porch bay with mullioned and transomed stone windows. Moulded, eliptically headed doorway with part-glazed, double door. Right hand corner has diagonally set first-floor oriel window. Other windows are sashes with glazing bars under stone lintels with ogee carvings. Ground floor windows in porch bay have stained glass sun motifs. The C20 extensions are not included.

(Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin 1972, p 215).

Listing NGR: ST8068626562

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Legacy System number:: 102961
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 215

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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.