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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1833 to 1866

Summary from record TR 06 SW 1323:

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1750 to 1899

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval - 1750 AD to 1899 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval - 1833 AD to 1866 AD)

Associated Finds

• FOOD AND LIQUID STORAGE CONTAINER (Post Medieval to Modern - 1870 AD to 1930 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 06 SW OSPRINGE WATER LANE (east side)
2/102 Bier House at TR 001604 3.8.72 (formerly listed under Faversham)
GV II
Bier house or mortuary chapel. Mid C19. Flint and dressed stone with plain tiled roof. One storey on plinth with kneelered parapet gable. Re-used medieval slit light in gable over plank and stud door in arched surround. The rear incorporates a contemporary urinal and earth closet under a flat roof. Included for rarity of type.
Listing NGR: TR0010060400

Description from record TR 06 SW 1323:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
WATER LANE, OSPRINGE 1. 1103 (South-East Side)
Former mortuary to east of Church Tii 0060 11/299 II
2. C19 possibly earlier. Single storey structure of flint with tiled gabled roof. Front of cleft flints with gable shaped pediment; stone capping. Door with voussoir of small blocks of stone with chamfered edge. Rough wooden boarded door.
Listing NGR: TR0010460302 (1)

A georesistivity survey and an exploratory trench (OA65, K66) were used to examine the former springhead/ stream basin area which underlies and used to flow from the Bier House. The excavation was part of a research project being carried out in the Ospringe area by the Faversham Society Archaeological Research Group into prehistoric and early medieval human activity. The recent history of the Bier House and the status of the large sarsen stone next to the Bier House were also investigated. The now disused lavatory and outlet pipe yielded some impressive late 19th - early 20th century bottles but the large trench was disappointingly empty of finds except for a few small fragments of modern ceramic building material from the backfilling of the stream and spring basin. The sarsen showed no signs of human interventions. (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Faversham Society Archaeological Research Group, 2012, Understanding Ospringe Project 2008-9 and 2011 (Unpublished document). SKE17255.

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