The owner of a Grade II listed house says he is shell shocked after a fire wrecked his home of 37 years. Fifty firefighters in 16 engines from across Kent were called to the three-storey property off West Street, Hunton, near Maidstone, just after 9pm on Friday. Andrew Lawrence, 65, was in his home on Gennings Park, when the smoke alarm went off – only to discover there were flames coming out of the top of the building. He said: “The house is completely wrecked; all the floors are falling onto each other and the ground floor is just full of everything that was above it.” While the fire service…
