Description

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

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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