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Latitude: 51.3789 / 51°22'44"N
Longitude: 0.6042 / 0°36'14"E
OS Eastings: 581327
OS Northings: 167649
OS Grid: TQ813676
Mapcode National: GBR QR9.HK0
Mapcode Global: VHJLW.FL7S
Plus Code: 9F329JH3+HM
Entry Name: The Old House
Listing Date: 24 February 1950
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1267776
English Heritage Legacy ID: 462599
ID on this website: 101267776
Location: Lower Rainham, Medway, Kent, ME8
County: Medway
Electoral Ward/Division: Rainham North
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Rainham St Margaret
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
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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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