The Old Barracks
THE OLD BARRACKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049063
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD BARRACKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049063
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD BARRACKS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD BARRACKS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 78167 37333
Details
CRANBROOK WILSLEY POUND TQ 7837-7937 (west side) 8/299 9.6.52 The Old Barracks (formerly listed as The Barracks) - II
Cloth hall, now house. C15, altered in C16 and late C19. Timber-framed with weatherboarded cladding on ground floor, and tile-hung on first floor, swept out as bellcast over ground flo cornice. Plain tiled hipped roofs. Central hipped dormer. End projecting stack to right, and stack to left and main stack to rear to left of centre. 2 storeys and attics. Slightly irregular 4 window front, very large late C19 metal-framed lattice casements. Doorway to right of centre with wide half-glazed Tudor arched moulded door surround and C18 flat hood over on brackets. Doorway with flat hood on right end. C19 extensions to rear including hipped wing to left and range of 4 gables to right. Interior: 4 bay frame with 2 bay crosswing addition. Heavily jowled wall posts with curved braces to ground floor. Roll moulded ceiling beamns. Plank and muntin panelling in dining room.
Listing NGR: TQ7816737333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169150
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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