The Drill Hall
THE DRILL HALL, PRESTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240444
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Drill Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE DRILL HALL, PRESTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240444
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Drill Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DRILL HALL, PRESTON STREET
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 DRILL HALL, PRESTON 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 01536 61105
Details
FAVERSHAM PRESTON STREET TR 0161 SE 3/329 The Drill Hall GV II
Assembly rooms, now used as drill hall. Circa 1849 by Martin Bulmer, Architect and Thomas Ware builder. Flemish bond stock brick, stuccoed at front. Low- pitched hipped slate roof, with gable at rear. Rendered stack on right hand side with moulded cornice. Plan: Rectangular plan assembly room 54' long by 28'6" wide with a gallery at the front-and a porch on the right hand side entered from the front. Exterior: Single storey. Symmetrical 3-bay front to the assembly room with a porch set back slightly on the right, both with deep moulded eaves cornices, rusticated stucco quoins and moulded plinths. The 3-bay assembly room to the left has 3 large windows each with moulded eaved architraves, moulded sills and later casements. The porch set back on right has a wide doorway with a moulded architrave and C19 moulded and panelled double doors. The right hand side of the porch has 12-pane sashes. The left hand side abuts on adjoining building. At the rear there are 2 small round-headed louvred windows high up in the gable. Interior: is largely intact. Around the walls a moulded plinth and paired pilasters with plaster console brackets supporting the ceiling. The moulded ceiling cornice might survive above the existing ceiling. The 3 octagonal lanterns have lost their original glazing and the cornices around their drums are later replacements. The balcony has a cast-iron balustrade and panelled double doors below. At the opposite end there is a doorway with panelled double doors in a moulded architrave with a cornice and panel above in an eaved architrave Note: The original assembly rooms in Faversham were in Market Street. They were superceded in 1839 by a suite of rooms on the present site which were destroyed by fire in 1848 and replaced by the existing building in circa 1849. Sources: The Faversham Society possesses relevant documents. Faversham Institute Journal. Country Life 1.9.86 pp 766-8.
Listing NGR: TR0153661105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438711
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 1 September, (1986), 766-768
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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