The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, LOWER RAINHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267776
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, LOWER RAINHAM ROAD
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- 2002-06-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/06962/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267776
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, LOWER RAINHAM 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:
- THE OLD 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:
- TQ 81327 67648
Details
GILLINGHAM
TQ86NW LOWER RAINHAM ROAD, Lower Rainham 686-1/8/79 (North side) 24/02/50 The Old House
GV II
House. C15, altered late C16. Timber-framed with plaster infill, limestone rubble and brick, with a brick ridge stack and tiled hipped roof with right-hand cross wing. PLAN: Wealden-type plan, with a lobby entry when the stack was inserted, and right-hand service room under catslide. EXTERIOR: Wealden frame with large square panels and C20 leaded lattice lights. Left-hand section jettied to front and end with curved corner brackets, a larger one on the corner and 2-light first-floor casement; left-hand return has ground-floor compression braces and first-floor tension braces, and central casements to each floor. Central former hall range set back beneath the eaves with a central curved brace, a mortice in the wall plate from a former diagonal left-hand brace, and a tension brace in the left-hand bay, former central doorway in line with the stack, 2 outer 3-light ground-floor casements and a right-hand first-floor casement, some with diamond-section mullions. Right-hand cross wing set forward with jettied upper floor, and a left-hand buttress or former chimney, stone below and brick above; 3-light casements, larger on the ground floor. Brick service range on the right-hand return under a catslide roof. INTERIOR: not inspected, but reported as having octagonal crown post roof and dragon beam to south-west corner.
Listing NGR: TQ8130267677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462599
- 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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