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Latitude: 51.3597 / 51°21'34"N
Longitude: 0.6287 / 0°37'43"E
OS Eastings: 583109
OS Northings: 165567
OS Grid: TQ831655
Mapcode National: GBR QRJ.PRP
Mapcode Global: VHJM2.V360
Plus Code: 9F329J5H+VF
Entry Name: The Cowls the Oast the Press
Listing Date: 21 December 1973
Last Amended: 5 December 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1259681
English Heritage Legacy ID: 462665
ID on this website: 101259681
Location: Moor Street, Medway, Kent, ME8
County: Medway
Electoral Ward/Division: Rainham South
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Rainham St Margaret
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
GILLINGHAM
TQ86NW MOOR STREET, Rainham
686-1/8/116 (North side)
21/12/73 The Oast, The Cowls and The Press
(Formerly Listed as:
MOOR STREET, Rainham
(North East side)
Oasthouse to south-east of Moor
Street House)
GV II
Oasthouses, now 3 houses. Mid C19, converted c1985. Brick with
weatherboarded rear first floor, hipped slate roof and tiled
oasts.
PLAN: L-shaped, with round oasts to E and SE, and square plan
oast to W end, and rear E press range.
EXTERIOR: large square oast has battered buttresses flanking
central openings to each side with C20 glazing. Rear range has
overhanging, weatherboarded first floor with left-hand
doorway. Inserted late C20 casements, timber cowls, the square
oast has a wide W entrance with flanking buttresses.
INTERIOR: not inspected but reported to have been extensively
altered in conversion.
Although converted, this is an externally complete and
historically important reminder of the town's agrarian past.
Listing NGR: TQ8280465600
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