Gillingham House

GILLINGHAM RECTORY ROAD TM 49 SW 8/62 Gillingham House 25-9-51 (formerly listed as 17/22 The Rectory)

• II

Former rectory house. Late C18. Brick, partly rendered and colourwashed. Roofs of slate and black glazed pantiles. Two storeys and attics, two storey rear wing. Unequal T-shaped plan, double pile to south. Facade of six bays; sashes with glazing bars and cambered heads. Doorway with 6-panelled door offset one bay to east: moulded architrave flanked by slim pilasters with projecting canopy. Dentilled cornice. Four attic dormers with cambered lead roofs. Eaves parapet. Parapeted and coped gables; east gable has brick tumbling-in and internal chimney stack. West gable has elaborate external stack with corbelled flues and weathered offsets with tumbling-in. Two storey semicircular bay at west end of rear pile, partly slated, partly pantiled; sashes with glazing bars, the ground floor openings with semicircular heads. Two storey hipped range to rear with mainly C20 fenestration; later lean-to's on west side, chimney stack off centre on ridge line. nterior: principal ground floor rooms have C18 ceilings with geometrical rib patterns. Good classical sitting room fireplace. Plain contemporary staircase.

Listing NGR: TM4005893046