Mount Pleasant

The following building shall be added to the list:-

TQ 75 NE THURNHAM WARE STREET (No 63) 5/224 (Mount Pleasant) II

House. Early C19 front to possible late C17 to early C18 core with rear extension to east wing added in late C19. Front of red brick in Flemish bond with hipped old tiled roof with 3 brick chimneystacks. 2 storeys; 3 windows, mainly 16-pane sashes but 12-pane to centre. Paired bracket eaves cornice. Central doorcase with 6 panelled door, the top 2 panels glazed originally with reeded pilasters and flat hood but with porch with chamfered piers added to it. Rear left range stuccoed and rear right range which projects further of brown brick with red brick dressings. Interior has staircase with stick balusters, 6 panelled doors and a C1820-30 wooden fireplace with reeded pilasters and roundels. 2 ground floor rooms have walls hung with canvas. One rear room has a Victorian cast iron kitchen range and fireplace, behind this is a kitchen with 2 old iron ceiling hooks, on open fireplace and bake oven. An opposite room has a large spine beam. The cellar has a C17 chamfered beam and some alcoves. The 1st floor has some C16 or early C17 elm floorboards and a rear bedroom has a fireplace with reeded pilasters and paterae. In the early C19 the Rev Twopenny, founder of Kentish Cricket lived here and a plaque attached to the front of the house records that Alfred Mynn (1807-1861) the great early Kent cricketer, the greatest match winner before W G Grace lived here for a number of years.

Listing NGR: TQ8109657601