Grays House Hadlow Bakery
GRAYS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070450
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Grays House Hadlow Bakery
- Statutory Address:
- GRAYS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070450
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Grays House Hadlow Bakery
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAYS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- HADLOW BAKERY, HIGH STREET
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:
- GRAYS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- HADLOW BAKERY, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hadlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63320 49725
Details
HADLOW HIGH STREET (south end) TQ 63 49 7/80 Hadlow Bakery and Grays House
GV II
2 houses and a shop. Late C18 with some C19 and C20 modernisations. Flemish bond red brick with decorative burnt headers, gable ends are peg-tile hung at attic level, adjoining bakery service building is weatherboarded; brick stacks and chimneyshafts with some C19 chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Terrace of 3 houses. Facing north west and built along the street. The right (south western) house is Grays House and now used by Lloyds Bank. Its plan is one-room wide and 2 rooms deep, stack projecting from right end wall and front entrance to left entrance hall and staircase. The rest of the block is Hadlow Bakery. The centre house is a mirror plan of Grays House. The left end house was probably mirror plan again but was converted to a shop in the early C19. Axial stack between the bakery house and shop sections serves back-to-back fireplaces. Bakery in outbuildings to rear of the shop with a service block projecting to left (north east) and set back from the terrace front.
Main block is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.
Exterior: Main block has regular 3-window front, one to each unit. The right bay (Grays House) has late C19 6-pane sashes and the doorway contains a contemporary top-glazed 9-panel door. Other windows are tripartite sashes containing central 9-pane sashes and ground floor left is a heavily restored early C19 shop window; timber frame with pilasters and moulded entablature and window has glazing bars. Bakery house doorway, alongside the one to Grays House, contains a part-glazed 4-panel door. Both doorways and the windows each side have low segmental arches over. Tall mansard roof is half-hipped each end and includes 6 flat-roofed dormer windows.
Lower service block to left and set back has garage doors across the ground floor and a single first floor casement with glazing bars. Roof is gable- ended.
Hadlow Bakery and Grays House form part of a group with the lodges and gateway to Hadlow Castle (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ6332049725
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179516
- 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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