THE BLACK HOUSE

THE BLACK HOUSE, LOWER RAINHAM ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267773
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: THE BLACK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE BLACK HOUSE, LOWER RAINHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267773
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: THE BLACK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE BLACK HOUSE, LOWER RAINHAM ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE BLACK HOUSE, LOWER RAINHAM ROAD

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

District:: Medway (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ8073068158

Details

GILLINGHAM

TQ86NW LOWER RAINHAM ROAD, Lower Rainham 686-1/8/78 (North side) 14/02/94 The Black House

II

Farmhouse, worker's cottage, converted and derelict at time of survey. Early-mid C17 with mid C19 windows. Timber-frame clad in weatherboarding with brick end wall, and corrugated-iron roof hipped to W end. PLAN: 2-bay hall house, originally with smoke bay at east end. EXTERIOR: 2-storey; irregular fenestration. N front has one mid C19 square casement but others are concealed by weatherboarding. The structure appears to be the two surviving bays of a 3-bay house. Opening at first-floor level on N front indicates that the W first-floor room was used for storage. INTERIOR: has a complete frame except for E wall, which was rebuilt in brick when former lath and plaster smoke bay was converted to a chimney. Ground-floor E room has chamfered spine beam with lamb's tongue stop, W room has chamfered floor hoists. C18 wooden winder stair. First-floor C17 floorboards and fireplace with wooden bressumer and curved back. Roof has coupled rafters without ridge piece, collar beams with carpenter's marks and lath and plaster partition. Frame has jowled posts and diagonal tension braces. The large fireplace on the ground floor was reduced in size in the early C19 and a 4-panelled door to the winder stair dates from this time. HISTORY: behind the weatherboarding is the substantially intact frame of a 3-bay C17 farmhouse, and included for historic interest.

Listing NGR: TQ8073068158

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Legacy System number:: 462596
Legacy System:: LBS

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