Description

GILLINGHAM

TQ86NW PUMP LANE, Lower Rainham
686-1/8/80 (West side)
21/12/73 Nos.1 AND 2
Chapel House

II

House, now two. Mid-late C15, altered early-mid C16, altered
early C20.
MATERIALS: timber-framed, rendered rear and weatherboarded
left-hand end, with a large right-hand brick external stack,
rear left-hand gable stack and rear central external stack,
and a half hipped tiled roof with left-hand hipped cross
range.
PLAN: 3-room parallel plan with a right-hand rear outshut to
No.1.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement; 9-window range. A
close-studded front has a continuous jettied first-floor in
three sections, the left-hand one projecting and with a
jettied return, and a hipped roof front and rear.
Mostly late C16 windows with flanking clerestory windows,
blocked on the first floor, mostly C19 casements; right-hand
and left side of middle section have ground-floor 3-light
transom and mullion windows with small flanking lights, with
C20 first-floor window above; left-hand 1-window range section
has C19 cross windows, and a curved brace with a moulded base
to the corner post.
Large right-hand stack has offset toward the front and ridge
section of roof connecting to the house; to the rear is a
plain C20 door, with C20 windows above and to the side of the
outshut.
Left-hand return is weatherboarded to upper floor, with C20
windows, and a rear C20 extension with a gable stack and C20
door.
Rear has a central single-storey gable with a stack, and a
shallow raking dormer to the attic.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ8034766348

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550732

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)