Kosicot

FAVERSHAM

659/10/361 LOWER ROAD 14-DEC-01 KOSICOT

II

House for gunpowder worker; now house. Mid-C19, extended and altered C20. Brick with brick gable stacks with cornices and a slate roof.

PLAN: T-shaped single-depth plan, extended to rear.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range front with lattice-pane casements: 2 square bay windows beneath projecting dormers with barge boards and set on curved brackets. Segmental-arched doorway with C20 door to S. N gable has projecting gable stack and a small casement with segmental-arched head to the left; S gable without openings has decorative bargeboards. Late C20 extension to rear wing in matching style.

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

HISTORY: Occupied by workers at the nearby Chart Gunpowder Mills (SAM), which formed part of the Home Mills.

(Percival, A J, 'The Faversham Gunpowder Industry and its development', Faversham Papers, No.4, 3rd Ed.1986; NMR Report, Home Works, RCHME, p.4, 1998)

Listing NGR: TR0086661194