Listed Building record MDO22156 - River Gate, Wyke Street, Gillingham

Seventeenth century house, now two houses, main range is probably mid eighteenth century. Ashlar facade with rubble side walls and a gable-ended, tiled roof with brick chimney stacks.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 32 (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. … (39) House (80522651), 140 yds. S.W. of (1), incorporates at the rear a service wing which may be of 17th-century origin. The S. front of the 18th-century main range is of four bays, with sashed windows with moulded architraves and projecting keystones in both storeys. The service wing has casement windows of four lights with leaded glazing. Inside, both parts of the house have chamfered beams.’

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Jul 6 2021 9:15AM