Standard House

The building is a house, dating to circa 1840-50, potentially around 1843 when the local creek was improved. It is constructed of rendered brick with a plain tile roof and rendered brick gable-end stacks. The plan is L-shaped, with a main front range containing two principal rooms heated from gable end stacks, a central entrance, and a two-storey outshut at the rear, to the left, with a stack of its own. The house is raised on a basement, likely due to concerns about flooding from high tides.

The exterior is symmetrical with three windows to the front, the centre first-floor window being narrower than those on either side. The windows were boarded over in 1988, but it is believed they would have been sash windows with glazing bars, as shown in a photograph from 1975. A central doorway has an original wooden doorcase with deeply reeded pilasters, with mouldings continuing to brackets supporting a flat canopy featuring a modillion cornice. The original six-panel door remains. Two 20th-century flat-roofed dormers are situated at the front. The right-hand end of the rear elevation projects under a catslide roof and has sash windows with glazing bars.

The interior was not inspected, but is expected to retain some 19th-century features. The house may have been the residence of Samuel Matthew Goldfinch, Mayor of Faversham in the late 19th century, and owner of a nearby shipyard known for its high-quality sailing barges, some of which undertook transatlantic voyages.

A second listing describes the building as circa 18th century, two storeys and attic, with three window bays and a tiled gabled roof with flanking chimneys and two flat-roofed dormers. The front is rendered, with windows in reveals and intact glazing bars. The central doorway is approached by a flight of seven steps, leading to a six-panelled door with fluted pilasters, frieze and a flat hood on shaped brackets.