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Tithe Barn, Maidstone

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porch with stone ground floor construction and brick infilling at first floor level between the timber framing. The building has multiple doorways at both levels on the west façade with many small windows at high level and external stone steps leading up to the first floor of the porch. The tiled
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in the first part of the 20th century. Concerned about the effect higher costs and lower incomes were having on the carriage owning classes, leading to thousands of examples being broken up every year, he determined to preserve a selection of, preferably coach-built, non-mechanically propelled
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and was later used as the palace's stables. Construction is attributed to Archbishop Courtenay, who died in 1396. The barn is a Grade I
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vehicles. The museum opened in 1946 and was the first carriage museum in Britain. Among its collection of 60 vehicles are
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The Museum is open from May to September each year on Wednesdays to Sundays and
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The Tyrwhitt-Drake Museum of Carriages was established by Mayor of Maidstone,
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bays. The west façade features a projecting two-storey
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Maidstone
51°16′17″N 0°31′20″E / 51.2713°N 0.5221°E / 51.2713; 0.5221
OS grid reference
TQ 76032 55481
Kent
Listed Building
Scheduled monument
Tithe Barn, Maidstone is located in Kent
Maidstone
Kent
tithe barn
Archbishop's Palace
listed building
scheduled monument

jettied
coursed
rag-stone
buttressed
half-timbered
crown post
hipped
gable

Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake
horse-drawn vehicles
sedan chairs
hansom cab
Queen Victoria

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