Durland House
DURLAND HOUSE, 160, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267791
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Durland House
- Statutory Address:
- DURLAND HOUSE, 160, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267791
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Durland House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DURLAND HOUSE, 160, 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:
- DURLAND HOUSE, 160, 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 82015 65811
Details
GILLINGHAM
TQ86NW HIGH STREET, Rainham 686-1/8/105 (South side) 24/02/50 No.160 Durland House
GV II
House, now retirement home. C16, encased and second storey added late C17, ground-floor altered early C19. Red Flemish bond brick with black headers, tile-hung rear, brick rear lateral stacks and tiled hipped valley roof. PLAN: T-shaped 2-room plan with rear service range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar; 4-window range. Double fronted with plinth, plat bands to ground and first floors, and eaves cornice; largely C19 ground floor has a round-arched doorway set in a similar recess, with channelled imposts, radial fanlight and good 6-panel door, and flanking tripartite windows with 6/6-pane and 2/2-pane sashes; first-floor rubbed brick flat arches with stepped keystones, to horned 2/2-pane sashes in exposed flush frames. Ends have parapets with curved front ends, plat bands, and 1-window range, the S end has a blind second-floor window. Rear is tile-hung, with a short SE lean-to and external stack, split roof, and stuccoed 2-storey C16 range. INTERIOR: a central through passage contains a front dogleg stair with column newels and stick balusters, and an elliptical arch; rear range has a large fireplace and chamfered stopped lateral and axial beams, and a rear left-hand winder service stair; first-floor has lateral beams pegged to jowl posts with mortice holes to the front and rear range; 2-panel doors, cupboards with HL-hinges, and a stone winder stair to the cellar.
Listing NGR: TQ8201565808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462570
- 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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