The Green Lion Hotel
THE GREEN LION HOTEL, 104, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267789
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Green Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREEN LION HOTEL, 104, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-01-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/11399/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267789
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Green Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GREEN LION HOTEL, 104, HIGH 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 GREEN LION HOTEL, 104, HIGH STREET
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 81827 65864
Details
GILLINGHAM
TQ86NW HIGH STREET, Rainham 686-1/8/103 (South side) 24/02/50 No.104 The Green Lion Hotel
GV II
Public house. C17 or earlier, partly refronted early C18, extended early-mid C20. Reported to be timber-framed, cased in English bond brick, painted to front and sides, brick ridge, end and rear lateral stacks and tiled hipped roof. PLAN: single-depth with rear single storey C20 extensions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement; 8-window range. Near-symmetrical front has a plinth, moulded plat band, and moulded coping to parapet on 3 sides. Left of centre doorway has a bracketed timber pediment, architrave and C20 panelled door, and a blocked left-hand doorway with an architrave. Mid-late C19 paired 6/6-pane sashes either side of central doorway; the other windows are C18 6/6-pane sashes in exposed frames, regularly spaced, with left-hand first-floor sash set apart; 3 gabled dormers. Rear has a central hipped stair tower, tile-hung above the eaves, with a left-hand hip to a vestigial wing with a central stack and sashes each side. INTERIOR: altered on the ground floor mid C20; central rear dogleg stair has early C19 rail, with elliptical arches each side. HISTORY: asymmetrical entrance and fenestration suggest an earlier date, which a more detailed examination might clarify.
Listing NGR: TQ8182165862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462568
- 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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