Former Vicarage
The Apex, Queen Street, Gillingham, SP8 4DX
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102961
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 215
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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