Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

North of the former paper mill buildings and built backing onto the northern face of the quarry, is an industrial building which could, based on its architectural style, to belong to the nineteenth century or early C20. Its location, suggest an association with the Thames Tar Distillery, established and working in this area of the site by at latest, the interwar period.

The building appears to have been redundant for some time, is boarded up and in a poor condition. Its western range has lost its roof through fire and remains open to the elements. The building comprises two distinct structural elements, a three-storey three bay warehouse/storage building with a taking-in door at first floor and a gable ended 2½ storey cross range to the east. The walls are obscured behind a rough-cast cement render, while the windows appear by style to be later insertions. The eastern angle of the cross-range, in common with many industrial buildings of this age, is rounded and corbelled over.

Location accurate to 2m based on available information

Monument Types

• TAR WORKS (Modern - 1906 AD? to 1960 AD? (at some time))

Full description

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North of the former paper mill buildings and built backing onto the northern face of the quarry, is an industrial building (TQ6092075120) which could, based on its architectural style, to belong to the 19th Century or early 20th. Its location, suggest an association with the Thames Tar Distillery, established and working in this area of the site by at latest, the interwar period.

The building appears to have been redundant for some time, is boarded up and in a poor condition. Its western range has lost its roof through fire and remains open to the elements. The building comprises two distinct structural elements, a three-storey three bay warehouse/storage building with a taking-in door at first floor and a gable ended 2½ storey cross range to the east. The walls are obscured behind a rough-cast cement render, while the windows appear by style to be later insertions. The eastern angle of the cross-range, in common with many industrial buildings of this age, is rounded and corbelled over. (1)

Location accurate to 2m based on available information

<1> Essex County Council, 2003, Aggregates Levy Survey Industrial Sites, KN575 (Unpublished document). SKE12009.

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