East Moor Street Cottages

GILLINGHAM

TQ86NW MOOR STREET, Rainham 686-1/8/113 (South side) 21/12/73 Nos 1 AND 2 East Moor Street Cottages (Formerly Listed as: MOOR STREET, Rainham (South West side) Nos.1 AND 2 East Moor Street Farm)

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House, now two. Mid-late C15, altered C16, extended to rear early C20. Timber-frame, partly cased in brick, with weatherboarding, brick ridge stacks and hipped tiled roof with small gablets and rear catslide. PLAN: Wealden plan with C18 continuous rear outshut and E rear C20 wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Left-hand brick section, centre and right weatherboarded. Central recessed entrance and C20 door, 3-light C20 casements, 2 to the left of the entrance, and C20 windows in the end returns. Rear has a pair of mid C20 large hipped dormers over the stairs, with single casements, above a C20 full width continuous outshut, and an E gabled wing with a lateral C20 stack. INTERIOR: central hall divided by late C16/early C17 axial moulded beam, with a large lateral fireplace in the rear wall of the right-hand room; dogleg stair extends back from the central room. HISTORY: probably originally a Wealden-type house with jettied front and recessed middle bay, with the central open hall floored and the left-hand ridge stack inserted C16, and refronted and the jetty underbuilt C20.

Listing NGR: TQ8280465600