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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 SW 234 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | The Old Vicarage, Church Street, Shoreham |
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Summary
The Old Vicarage, formerly The Vicarage, used as VAD Hospital during World War 1
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5223 6156 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56SW |
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| Parish: | SHOREHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BUILDING (Medieval to Modern - 1535 AD to 2050 AD)
- HOSPITAL (Modern - 1916 AD to 1918 AD)
Full description
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The Old Vicarage, formerly The Vicarage, was used as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Hospital by Kent/114 VAD from July 1916 until Dec 1918. The building is still in use.
Timber framed vicarage built by 1535. It has a rectagular plan, of four unequal bays in line on an east-west axis originally with a crown post roof. Substantial alterations and additions were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. (2)
Historic England archive material: BF040548 THE OLD VICARAGE, SHOREHAM File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.
<1> Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.
<2> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War. |
| <2> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
