Poor'S House The Master'S House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1966. Workhouse, house pair. 1 related planning application.

Poor'S House The Master'S House

WRENN ID
sleeping-mantel-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Folkestone and Hythe
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1966
Type
Workhouse, house pair
Source
Historic England listing

Description

A parish workhouse and the master’s house, dating from the late 18th century, now forming a pair of houses. The building is constructed of red and grey brick in Flemish bond, with the left gable end tile-hung (likely over a brick core) and the right gable end brick. It has a plain tile roof with a hipped section cut back over the central part. A rendered brick gable-end stack is present on the left, and a rear stack on the right. The fenestration is irregular, featuring four windows. The second floor has three two-light horizontally-sliding sashes and one two-light casement. The first floor has four recessed twenty-pane sashes with segmental heads, one to each “wing” and two to the central section. The ground floor includes three multipane canted bay windows on brick bases, each with a flat corniced roof. A door with four fielded panels, two top lights, and a flat bracketed hood, leading up three steps, is located at the right end of the left “wing,” which is The Master’s House. A blocked carriage entrance is visible at the left end of the central section. A panelled door with two small top lights and a flat bracketed hood, leading up three steps, is at the left end of the right “wing,” which is the Poor's House. A two-storey rear lean-to is also present. The interior has not been inspected. A building at the rear, now located in The Row, is believed to have been the former hospital of the workhouse, but it is not listed.

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