FAVERSHAM STONEBRIDGE LODGE

FAVERSHAM STONEBRIDGE LODGE, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240312
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1980
List Entry Name:: FAVERSHAM STONEBRIDGE LODGE
Statutory Address:: FAVERSHAM STONEBRIDGE LODGE, WEST STREET

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Date:: 2001-11-05
Reference:: IOE01/04878/36
Rights:: © Mr M.K Lofthouse. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240312
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1980
List Entry Name:: FAVERSHAM STONEBRIDGE LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: FAVERSHAM STONEBRIDGE LODGE, WEST 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:: FAVERSHAM STONEBRIDGE LODGE, WEST STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Swale (District Authority)
Parish:: Faversham
National Grid Reference:: TR 01098 61506

Details

FAVERSHAM

659/2/309 WEST STREET 14-APR-80 FAVERSHAM STONEBRIDGE LODGE

II

Watch house at gunpowder works; armoury during Napoleonic War; school 1848-61; now house. Late C18, altered C19 and late C20. Rendered brick with two short brick ridge stacks to left end and tiled hipped roof.

PLAN: Single-depth plan.

EXTERIOR: Single storey; 3-window range to road, with a left of centre doorway with boarded door and hornless 8/8-pane sashes; entrance in right return with mid C20 door, the rear has 4 windows and doorway in similar positions to the front, with keystones to the windows, and a blocked doorway to the left.

INTERIOR: Altered late C20. The interior contains a circular painted panel on which is depicted various sabre positions - used as a target probably by the local militia. HISTORY: Described as a watchman's house in 1806, it formed part of the Lower and Bennet gunpowder mills, which were part of the Home Mills within the Royal Gunpowder Works. It was used as an armoury to defend the Works during the Napoleonic War. Stonebridge Pond to the rear was a system of leats for moving powder around the mill.

(Percival, A J, 'The Faversham Gunpowder Industry and its Development', Faversham Papers, No 4, 3rd Ed. 1986; NMR Report, Home Works, RCHME, p.5, 1998).

Listing NGR: TR0109861506

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 438694
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'NMR Report' in Home Works, (1998), 5
Percival, A J, 'Faversham Papers' in The Faversham Gunpowder Industry And Its Development, No 4, 3rd Edition, (1986)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.