Wren'S Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. House, council office. 5 related planning applications.

Wren'S Cross

WRENN ID
crumbling-pilaster-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1951
Type
House, council office
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TQ 7655 SW 883/7/60

UPPER STONE STREET (West side) Wren's Cross

30.07.1951

GV II House, later part of council offices. Early C19. Mainly stock brick but south front red brick with hipped slate roof with two brick chimneystacks. Two storeys; two windows and central blank facing Upper Stone Street and two windows facing Knightrider Street. Parapet. Painted stringcourse. Mainly tripartite windows with glazing bays intact. The ground floor windows are set in elliptical arches. Doorcase with engaged fluted Doric columns, triglyph frieze, rectangular fanlight and six panel door. On the front facing Knightrider Street one window bay has a curved front through two storeys. South front is of brown brick with cross-shaped iron ties and doorcase with cornice and brackets. The interior has a curved wooden well staircase with stick balusters and skylight, hall arch with foliate brackets, rectangular fanlight to former rear door, some six-panelled doors and cupboards and some fireplace surrounds. The later C19 red brick police accommodation extension to the west is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TQ7623255361

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