Former Goods Shed To Faversham Station

The building is a former goods shed, dating to circa 1858 and constructed for the East Kent Railway line. It is built of stock brick with red brick dressings and has a gabled slate roof. The plan is rectangular, consisting of nine bays with smaller structures attached to the north and south, the southern structure likely originally a boiler house.

The west elevation has seven round-headed windows with red brick arches, divided by pilasters, and two large round-headed openings that retain iron pintle hinges. The windows retain iron glazing bars for fixed casements, although the glass was missing at the time of inspection. A plinth is present. The full-length wooden canopy was no longer present during the inspection. Gable ends feature brick coping and circular, louvred ventilation holes, as well as large round-headed entrances. A chimney stack on the ridge has been rebuilt.

Attached to the south is a low gabled room with round-headed openings, including an entrance with a flight of stone steps and solid brick balustrading. A similar, larger projection to the north, probably originally a boiler house, has two paired round-headed arches, matching coping to the gable, round-headed windows, and an entrance. The east side has round-headed window openings, but the casements have been removed, and there are no entrances.

The interior of the nine-bay shed has a roof structure of queenposts and side-angled queenstruts, two tiers of purlins, and a ridgepiece which is boarded. The roof structure is supported on stepped brick lintels. A brick platform runs halfway across the shed to the west, and the full length of the building, and it retains two fixed iron cranes, approximately 10 feet in height. The end gables each have a louvred oculus, and a large round-headed opening for rolling stock. One half of a pair of round-headed ledged and braced doors remained within.

The shed is substantially intact and forms part of a good group of railway structures of similar age at Faversham.