Listed Building record MDO22151 - Stour Motors, Queen Street, Gillingham

Sixteenth century house, formerly known as Great House. The builing has walls of coursed squared rubble with ashlar quoins and a tiled roof, and brick chimney stacks.

The Great House of two storeys and attics with rubble walls and tiled roof dates from the 16th century. The roof has tie and collar beams, and in the south portion the ceiling of the ground floor has moulded beams. <2>

The textual description of a "House, some 400 yds north of (the church)" by RCHM <3> agrees with Authy 2 description, but
the grid reference given as "ST 80752693" is in error. Plan. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1890 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 80672693) Great House (NAT)

<2> DOE (HHR), Oct 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Shaftesbury RD, 9 (Scheduling record). SDO17584.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 30-31 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘Unless otherwise described, the following monuments are of the 18th century and are two-storeyed, or single-storeyed with dormer-windowed attics, and have coursed rubble walls and tiled or slated roofs. … (12) HOUSE (80752693), some 400 yds. N. of (1), is of two storeys with attics and has rubble walls and a tiled roof. Although masked by modern industrial buildings the range appears to be of mid or late 16th-century origin. The main ground-floor room, now divided, has two large intersecting beams and corresponding wall-plates with elaborate double ovolo mouldings, forming a ceiling of four panels. The open fireplace on the S. is blocked. On the N. of the room is a plank-and-muntin partition; the modern stairs beside it perhaps take the place of a former through-passage. Presumably the N. rooms were originally service rooms; the N. fireplace is modern. In the first-floor rooms the ceilings rest on heavy chamfered tie-beams; the S. chamber has a small fireplace. The original roof is of five bays, with four collar and tie-beam trusses supporting three rows of purlins; there are mortices for two heights of wind-bracing, now gone.’

<4> Mead, Richard, Field Investigators Comments RPM, F1 RPM 24-SEP-80 (Unpublished document). SWX2301.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206391 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 10 2022 1:03PM