Boundary Stone to Former Chart Gunpowder Mills
BOUNDARY STONE TO FORMER CHART GUNPOWDER MILLS, WESTBROOK WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240598
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Stone to Former Chart Gunpowder Mills
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY STONE TO FORMER CHART GUNPOWDER MILLS, WESTBROOK WALK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240598
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Stone to Former Chart Gunpowder Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY STONE TO FORMER CHART GUNPOWDER MILLS, WESTBROOK WALK
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:
- BOUNDARY STONE TO FORMER CHART GUNPOWDER MILLS, WESTBROOK WALK
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 01023 61286
Details
FAVERSHAM
TR 0161 SW WESTBROOK WALK
659/2/378 Boundary stone to former Chart Gunpowd
27-SEP-89 er Mills
(Formerly listed as:
WESTBROOK WALK
W HALL BOUNDARY STONE)
II
Boundary stone to gunpowder works. Dated 1839. Limestone. Stone approx.60cm high inscribed WH/1839 on one side and W & PBH on the reverse.
HISTORY: The Chart Gunpowder Mills formed part of the Home Works of the Royal Gunpowder Factory. The Hall family bought them in 1825. Associated with the nearby Chart Mills (SAM), indicating the extent of the works and its presence close to the centre of the town.
(Percival, A J, 'The Faversham Gunpowder Industry and its development', Faversham Papers, N(4, 3rd Ed. 1986; NMR Report, Home Works, RCHME, p4, 1998)
Listing NGR: TR0102361286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438960
- 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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