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FORMER JOINER'S WORKSHOP IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF THE RIVER MEDWAY AT BRANBRIDGES

FORMER JOINER'S WORKSHOP IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF THE RIVER MEDWAY AT BRANBRIDGES, BRANBRIDGES ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393759
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-2010
List Entry Name:: FORMER JOINER'S WORKSHOP IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF THE RIVER MEDWAY AT BRANBRIDGES
Statutory Address:: FORMER JOINER'S WORKSHOP IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF THE RIVER MEDWAY AT BRANBRIDGES, BRANBRIDGES ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393759
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-2010
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Aug-2010
List Entry Name:: FORMER JOINER'S WORKSHOP IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF THE RIVER MEDWAY AT BRANBRIDGES
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER JOINER'S WORKSHOP IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF THE RIVER MEDWAY AT BRANBRIDGES, BRANBRIDGES 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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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER JOINER'S WORKSHOP IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF THE RIVER MEDWAY AT BRANBRIDGES, BRANBRIDGES ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
Parish:: East Peckham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 67443 48473

Details

EAST PECKHAM

441/0/10013 BRANBRIDGES ROAD 26-APR-10 (East side) FORMER JOINER'S WORKSHOP IMMEDIATELY S OUTH OF THE RIVER MEDWAY AT BRANBRIDGES (Formerly listed as: BAINBRIDGES ROAD FORMER JOINER'S WORKSHOP IMMEDIATELY S OUTH OF THE RIVER MEDWAY AT BRAINBRIDG ES)

II A former joiner's workshop, currently used for storage. Mid-C19 with C20 alterations.

MATERIALS: Constructed on a deep Kentish ragstone base the ground floor is of brown brick in English bond and the first floor timber framed, clad in weatherboarding, with gabled slate roof.

PLAN: Two storeys, three bays with central unloading bay. The south bay of the ground floor is partitioned.

EXTERIOR: The south-western side, which formerly opened directly on to the River Medway, has central double ledged wooden hoist doors on the first floor with a large decorative iron hoist bracket. The end bays on both floors have 16-pane pivoting casements. The south-east end has a wide ground floor opening. The north-east landward side has identical ledged hoist doors to the first floor flanked by 16-pane pivoting casements and the ground floor has central wooden double doors and a plank door with wooden architrave to the south.

INTERIOR: The ground floor is divided into three bays with two spine beams supported on chamfered posts with chamfered diagonal braces. The southern bay has been divided off by a wooden screen with unglazed top panels with metal divisions. A flight of wooden steps in the south-eastern corner leads to the upper floor, the roof of which is divided into five bays with scientific kingpost roof of softwood with purlins and diagonal windbraces. The cast iron hoist wheel survives.

HISTORY: From the 1740s onwards Branbridges and East Peckham became a thriving industrial area, with cotton, timber for boat building, hops for brewing and fruit being transported along the River Medway. After the coming of the railways the river traffic declined and the Medway Navigation Company closed down in 1909. The building is shown on the 1894 Ordnance Survey map. The northern part of the Branbridges site is inscribed "coal wharf" but nearly opposite to the south west are the words "timber yard". On the 1894 and 1897 maps it is shown with an adjoining section to the north, perhaps a covered timber yard for timber storage. This other building is no longer shown on the 1908 map, but on all these maps a narrow section of the River Medway is shown flowing past the south west of the building, convenient for loading and unloading straight on to boats. This section of the river was later filled-in.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The former joiner's workshop at Branbridges is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a good example of a mid-C19 joiners workshop with contemporary carpentry construction. * It survives completely intact with evidence of its original function given by the hoist doors, iron external hoist arm and internal hoist wheel all surviving. * It is an example of a local industry which depended on transporting raw materials and goods down the River Medway, a practice which ceased in 1909. * Industrial buildings by the River Medway are a rare survival.

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Legacy System number:: 506007
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.