Description

GILLINGHAM

TQ76NE LOWER RAINHAM ROAD, Grange
686-1/7/71 (North East side)
21/12/73 Nos.143 AND 145
Peckham Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWER RAINHAM ROAD, Grange
(North East side)
Nos.141, 143, 145
Magnolia House (No.141), Peckham
Cottage (No.143), Peckham Croft
(No.145))

GV II

House, divided into 2, now one. Middle and right-hand bays
late C15 (said to be 1470), left-and bay slightly later, C18
rear outshut, and mid C20 rear single-storey extensions.
MATERIALS: timber-framed with weatherboarded ground-floor and
rendered right-hand end, brick axial stack behind the ridge,
and tiled hipped roof.
PLAN: open hall plan remodelled in late C16/early C17 with
inserted hall floor and stack.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 4-window range.
Continuous first floor jetty with curved brackets, central and
left-hand C20 doors, right-hand 8/8-pane sash in flush frame
and left of centre French window; framed first floor has
exposed posts, 2 curved tension braces to the left-hand end
bays, 4 regularly-spaced early C19 paired pointed-arched
windows with metal 6-pane casements with glazed tympana. 3
former clerestory windows beneath the eaves with thin mullion
bars, now blocked. Right-hand return has a single casement.
INTERIOR: contains a timber frame with jowl posts on the
second floor, right-hand solar with rear tension brace, an
inserted stack in a former smoke bay between middle and
right-hand bays with a rear window with diamond mullions and
shutter groove possibly for control of the smoke. An
asymmetrical lateral beam set toward the front to a possibly
lobby, and a former rear central stair bay now included in the
outshut; left-hand bay a separate construction.
Cupboards with HL hinges, and one first-floor cupboard in the
back of the smoke bay with cock's comb hinges.
Roof not inspected but reported to have crown post trusses,
closed to the third bay from W, but open above the collar, and
smoke-blackened.
(RCHME: Survey of Kent Houses: 40526).

Listing NGR: TQ7985668654

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550824

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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