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Monument details

HER Number:TR 06 SW 1127
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:THE MAISON DIEU MUSEUM

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1066 to 1540


Grid Reference:TR 0036 6085
Map Sheet:TR06SW
Parish:FAVERSHAM, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1540 AD)
  • CHAPEL (Medieval - 1234 AD to 1516 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1069431: THE MAISON DIEU MUSEUM; Scheduled Monument 1011801: THE MAISON DIEU, A 16TH CENTURY HOUSE INCORPORATING PART OF A MEDIEVAL HOSPITAL

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
OSPRINGE STREET 1. ll03 (South Side)
No 17 (The Maison Dieu Museum) TR 0060 11/171 29.7.50. II* GV
2. This building is the most substantial surviving portion of the medieval Maison Dieu Hospital, founded in 1230. It was at one time a public house, but is now scheduled as an Ancient Monument and is used as a small Museum. It is a building with Cl3 base and early C16 timber-framed lst floor overhanging on the protruding ends of the floor joists on both the North and East sides. The North front slopes downhill from East to West. 2 storeys. 2 windows. Ground floor has been rebuilt in red brick on the North front, but on the East front is of flints with 2 narrow windows, medieval. The lst floor has the timbering exposed on the North and East fronts. Casement windows. Hipped tiled roof. Doorway in splayed angle. Chimney breast at the West end of the North front with a blocked arch in it. AM.
Nos 1 to l9 (odd) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR0036260855


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

Ancient Monuments Laboratory, 1999, Tree ring analysis of timbers from Maison Dieu, Ospringe, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE13447.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Unpublished document: Ancient Monuments Laboratory. 1999. Tree ring analysis of timbers from Maison Dieu, Ospringe, Kent.
---Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Related records

TR 06 SW 15Part of: St. Mary's Hospital (Maison Dieu), Ospringe (Monument)