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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 NE 1032 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Former Drying Room at Springfield Mill |
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Summary
Drying Room, not listed, rebuilt c1863 on the footprint of the original building destroyed in the fire of 1862, is a long rectangular, double-height, single-storey building adjoining the central part of the mill at its southern end. It is built of yellow stock brick with the upper level of timber louvres and a pitched slate roof.
The building is divided into three large bays by brick cross walls rising above the pitch of the roof. The southern bay has been altered by the insertion of windows to light a later mezzanine floor.
The central core of the building has seen continuous alteration into the late C20, so that the original stages of the paper making process within this building are no longer legible
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7554 5671 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75NE |
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| Parish: | MAIDSTONE, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- (Former Type) PAPER MILL (Closed, Undated) + Sci.Date
Full description
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Drying Room, not listed, rebuilt c1863 on the footprint of the original building destroyed in the fire of 1862, is a long rectangular, double-height, single-storey building adjoining the central part of the mill at its southern end. It is built of yellow stock brick with the upper level of timber louvres and a pitched slate roof.
The building is divided into three large bays by brick cross walls rising above the pitch of the roof. The southern bay has been altered by the insertion of windows to light a later mezzanine floor.
The central core of the building has seen continuous alteration into the late C20, so that the original stages of the paper making process within this building are no longer legible.
<1> Swale & Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2017, Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment for the Rag Room and Drying Room buildings at the former Springfield Paper Mill, Maidstone, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE53530.
<2> Swale & Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2017, Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment for The Rag Room and the Drying Room buildings at the former Springfield Paper Mill, Maidstone, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE54216.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Swale & Thames Archaeological Survey Company. 2017. Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment for the Rag Room and Drying Room buildings at the former Springfield Paper Mill, Maidstone, Kent. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Swale & Thames Archaeological Survey Company. 2017. Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment for The Rag Room and the Drying Room buildings at the former Springfield Paper Mill, Maidstone, Kent. |
