Oyster Bay House
OYSTER BAY HOUSE, IRON WHARF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240318
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Oyster Bay House
- Statutory Address:
- OYSTER BAY HOUSE, IRON WHARF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240318
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Oyster Bay House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OYSTER BAY HOUSE, IRON WHARF
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:
- OYSTER BAY HOUSE, IRON WHARF
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 02124 62038
Details
In the entry for:
IRON WHARF TR 06 SW 'The Big Building' 4/220 (Warehouse immediately north east of Standard House) - II
the address shall be amended to read:
TR 06 SW IRON WHARF 4/220 Oyster Bay House - II
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The following building shall be added to the list: IRON WHARF 1. 1103 TR 06 SW 4/220 'The Big Building' (Warehouse immediately north east of Standard House) II
Warehouse. Circa mid C19, said to have been built circa 1843 when the creek was improved. Buff-coloured stock brick. Welsh slate roof with gabled ends and brick dentil eaves cornice. Plan: Rectangular on plan. Its north end to the creek has a hoist and a doorway at each floor for loading/unloading. There is also a hoist and doorway at each floor level at the opposite south end. Exterior: 3 storeys, the second storey partly in the roof space. 5- bay east and west sides and 3-bay north and south ends, the bays divided by brick pilasters, those at the ends clasping the corners. Segmental brick arch openings with original 16-pane cast-iron windows which have bosses at the inter- sections of the glazing bars. There is a doorway on the ground floor at right of the west side with an original door and a wider doorway at the centre of the east side. The gable ends have a central doorway on each floor with plank double doors, the ground floor doorway on the south end enlarged later and on the gables at both ends a weatherboarded timber-framed hoist housing containing old hoist mechanisms; the hoist housing at the north end rises above the main roof level. Interior: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TR0212462038
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438704
- 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.
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