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Gunpowder Building and Entry Gates on North Side of Bysing Wood Road, near Bunting Road

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Published on Thursday, September 4.

Updated on Friday, September 12.

The last standing remains of the entry arrangement to the Oare Gunpowder Works. Located at the South West extremity of the whole site and dating from the late 19th Century, they comprise a freestanding building with a curved and recessed entry gate arrangement and a freestanding perimeter wall. All constructed of local yellow stock brick laid in a garden wall bond, the main building has the segmentally curved, Belfast type roof covered in corrugated iron that was typical of the Gunpowder industry. The entry gates to the South West retain their curved, recessed sides and gate piers but have long lost their joinery. Together with the adjacent perimeter wall they are much overgrown by vegetation and the latter element has recently been severely damaged by falling trees. Although they have become detached from the main body of the Gunpowder Works and its Country Park, these remains form a significant public reminder of the once major Faversham gunpowder industry.