56, SOUTH ROAD
56, SOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240510
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 56, SOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 56, SOUTH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240510
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 56, SOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, SOUTH ROAD
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:
- 56, SOUTH ROAD
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 01010 61190
Details
FAVERSHAM
659/2/371 SOUTH ROAD
27-SEP-89 (Northwest side)
56
South Lodge
GV II
Gate house to gunpowder works: now house. 1851/2. Hammer-dressed ragstone ashlar, rock-faced dressings, stone ridge stack and slate hipped roof.
T-shaped single-depth plan. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: Single-storey; 1-window range front with plinth, a shallow gable with overhanging eaves extends down to the right over a round-arched, keyed doorway with boarded door; segmental-arched 6/6-pane casement in the gable, with similar to other elevations. Chimney has wide, thin cornice. Later extension to the rear.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: The Chart Gunpowder Mills formed part of the Home Works of the Royal Gunpowder Factory, and were rebuilt in 1815.
The gate lodge and associated walls (qv) to the Chart Mills (SAM) were built by the owner, William Hall, as the main entrance to the Mills after all the Faversham works came under his control and were rationalised from 1854. One of the few complete surviving buildings directly associated with the gunpowder works in the centre of Faversham, and a rare instance of the use of stone in the town.
(Percival, A J, 'The Faversham Gunpowder Industry and its development', Faversham Papers, N° 4, 3rd Ed. 1986; NMR Report, Home Works, RCHME, p.4, 1998)
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Listing NGR: TR0100861192
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438953
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
NMR Report in Home Works, (1998), 4
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.
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