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Monument details

HER Number:TR 06 SW 1509
Type of record:Building
Name:Possible Corning House, Marsh Gunpowder Works

Summary

Possible Corning House, Marsh Gunpowder Works

Grid Reference:TR 0157 6279
Map Sheet:TR06SW
Parish:FAVERSHAM, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • CORNING HOUSE (Post Medieval to Unknown - 1790 AD?)

Full description

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The site and remains of a possible Corning House, 'where the pressed cake of gunpowder would have been broken down into smaller grains and sieved into various grades'. The building was in existance by 1877, and had possibly been there since 1790. (1)


<1> Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd, 2019, Historic Building Recording of the Marsh Gunpowder Works within the Former Oare Mineral Works, Faversham, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE54278.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Unpublished document: Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd. 2019. Historic Building Recording of the Marsh Gunpowder Works within the Former Oare Mineral Works, Faversham, Kent.