East Wing and West Wing
East Wing and West Wing, The Old Cloth Hall, North Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1070982
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- East Wing and West Wing
- Statutory Address:
- East Wing and West Wing, The Old Cloth Hall, North Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1070982
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- East Wing and West Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- East Wing and West Wing, The Old Cloth Hall, North Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AG
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:
- East Wing and West Wing, The Old Cloth Hall, North Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Biddenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 85111 38503
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/11/2020
TQ 8538
16/73
BIDDENDEN
NORTH STREET (west side)
The Old Cloth Hall
East Wing and West Wing
(Formerly listed as The Old Cloth Hall or Old Cloth Workers Hall, NORTH STREET)
4.6.52.
I
This was the dwelling-place and one of the workshops of the cloth workers who were numerous in Biddenden in the Middle Ages. Later the building was divided into eight houses which were separated on the ground and first floors but were inter-connected in the attics. The whole is now two residences.
The main portion is C15. The east end facing the road was added or altered in the C17. Timber-framed range with plaster infilling, the east end close-studded, the ground floor mostly rebuilt in brick, now painted: six small tile hung gables, some with carved bargeboards. Tiled roof. Casement windows, mostly with diamond-shaped leaded panes. At the east end is a bay on the ground and first floors with a window of two tiers of seven lights and wooden mullions and transoms. On the first floor below the three westernmost gables are similar oriel windows of five lights, the westernmost one with two wooden brackets beneath it, the others with a plaster cove beneath. Between the easternmost of the oriel windows and the bay at the east end is a slight projection on the ground floor with a sloping tiled roof and a roundheaded recess. Two storeys and attics in gables: Eight windows facing north.
The east front has one window. Its first floor oversails on a moulded bressumer and brackets. Oversailing gable above with the date 1672 and the initials E S (Edmund Stede). On the ground floor is a similar bay of seven lights and a similar oriel window above with a plaster cove beneath it. The south front is faced with red brick on the ground floor and tile hung above: seven gables, some of them oversailing. Projecting bay on first floor beneath the easternmost gable.
Listing NGR: TQ8511738505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 180177
- 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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