Grove House and Garage to South
GROVE HOUSE AND GARAGE TO SOUTH, OARE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389587
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Grove House and Garage to South
- Statutory Address:
- GROVE HOUSE AND GARAGE TO SOUTH, OARE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389587
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Grove House and Garage to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROVE HOUSE AND GARAGE TO SOUTH, OARE 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:
- GROVE HOUSE AND GARAGE TO SOUTH, OARE ROAD
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 00614 62649
Details
FAVERSHAM
TR 0062 OARE ROAD
659/5/155 Davington
29-JUL-50 (West side)
Grove House and garage to south
(Formerly listed as:
OARE ROAD
Davington
White House)
II
Superintendent's house on gunpowder works, now house. Early C18, re-fronted in early C19. Brick with stuccoed front and a steep tiled hipped roof, with ridge stacks.
PLAN: Double-depth plan
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Symmetrical front with coved eaves, early C19 door surround with incised pilasters to a moulded entablature and a 6-panel door, the top pair glazed; hornless 8/8-pane sashes each side with C19 ground-floor drip moulds, and a late C20 window set in the recess above the entrance. 2 hipped dormers have mid C20 casements. Window-less sides. Outbuilding, now garage, to south is a single-storey C18 structure of English bond brick with corrugated asbestos roof. Segmental arches over two blocked openings to former wheel pit facing the house.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: The Oare Gunpowder Works was working from 1719 and underwent continued development until 1936 when it closed. It included three houses at the NE end occupied by staff of the Works, which are the only surviving standing remains of the Works. The remains of an incorporating mill are included in the garage to the S. The house was used as an officers' mess during the Second World War.
(Cocroft, W, 'Oare Gunpowder Works', Faversham Papers in association with RCHME,No. 39, p. 28, 1994; Percival, A J, 'The Faversham Gunpowder Industry and its development', Faversham Papers, No. 4, 3rd Ed. 1986)
The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1205770. This entry was removed from the List on 12 June 2014.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488275
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Percival, A J, Faversham Papers in The Faversham Gunpowder Industry And Its Development, No 4, 3rd Edition, (1986)
Cocroft, W, Faversham Papers in Oare Gunpowder Works, No 39, Vol. 39, (1994), 28
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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