Former Vicarage

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ST 8026 12/122

GILLINGHAM QUEEN STREET The Apex

(Formerly listed as HIGH STREET (north side), Rawson Court, previously listed as Rawson Court, (the part that was formerly the Vicarage listed as Vicarage outbuildings)

16.8.60.

GV II

Vicarage, now part of old people's home. 1883, by E Swinfen Harris (Newman and Pevsner). Coursed rubble walls with brick bonding courses Ashlar dressings. Hipped tiled roofs with moulded brick stacks in various locations. An irregular Arts and Crafts influenced design. Two storeys. Seven irregular window range. Right of centre is a two window range projecting porch bay with mullioned and transomed stone windows. Moulded, eliptically headed doorway with part-glazed, double door. Right hand corner has diagonally set first-floor oriel window. Other windows are sashes with glazing bars under stone lintels with ogee carvings. Ground floor windows in porch bay have stained glass sun motifs. The C20 extensions are not included.

(Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin 1972, p 215).

Listing NGR: ST8068626562