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Latitude: 51.3141 / 51°18'50"N
Longitude: 0.8748 / 0°52'29"E
OS Eastings: 600440
OS Northings: 161140
OS Grid: TR004611
Mapcode National: GBR SW3.D0Y
Mapcode Global: VHKJW.37TH
Plus Code: 9F328V7F+JW
Entry Name: White House
Listing Date: 27 September 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1240493
English Heritage Legacy ID: 438916
ID on this website: 101240493
Location: Ospringe, Swale, Kent, ME13
County: Kent
District: Swale
Civil Parish: Faversham
Built-Up Area: Faversham
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: House
FAVERSHAM
659/10/244 LOWER ROAD
27-SEP-89 (South side)
WHITE HOUSE
II
House for gunpowder worker; now house. C17, extended and altered C18. Brick with right-hand brick gable stack and a steep tiled roof.
PLAN: Single-depth one room plan, room added to left of entrance, and extended top rear outshut.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attic; 2-window range. Right-hand earlier part in English bond has a plinth and plat band, 20 door and segmental-arched ground-floor window, and similar windows in left-hand gable. Late-C20 glazing. Rear catslide outshut.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Described in 1806 as a millman's house, it was occupied by workers at the Ospringe Mill, a small C 18 gunpowder mill which formed part of the Home Mills which the government bought in 1759 to create the first Royal Gunpowder Works.
(Percival, A J, 'The Faversham Gunpowder Industry and its development', Faversham Papers, No 4, 3rd Ed. 1986; Cocroft, W, Dangerous Energy, Chapter 2, p26, draft 1998; NMR Report, Home Works, RCHME, p26, 1998).
Listing NGR: TR0044061140
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