The Forresters
THE FORRESTERS, ROMFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074942
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Forresters
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORRESTERS, ROMFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074942
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Forresters
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORRESTERS, ROMFORD ROAD
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 FORRESTERS, ROMFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pembury
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63954 41157
Details
TQ 64 SW PEMBURY ROMFORD ROAD
5/423 The Forresters
II
Former farmhouse, once a public house. Mid/late C17, enlarged and modernised circa 1930. Original house is a tile-hung timber-frame on brick footings, the extension is stretcher bond red brick to first floor level with tile-hung timber framing above. brick stacks and chimneyshafts. peg-tile roof.
Plan: L-plan house. The main block faces south south east, say south. It has a 3-room plan. An axial stack between the centre and left rooms serves back-to-back fireplaces and the right room has a projecting end stack. In fact the left end room is the front room of a crosswing projecting to rear which was added circa 1930 with a new kitchen and staircase built behind the rest of the main block. Thus the original house had a 2-room plan; a larger heated main living room to right and originally unheated service room to left. The rear corner fireplace there was probably inserted in the C19. The partition between these 2 rooms has been removed.
House is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace of the C17 section and a secondary lean-to outshot on the right (east) end.
Exterior: Irregular 3-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars and the original part has 2 flat-roofed dormers. Front doorway is right of centre and it contains a late C19/early C20 part-glazed plank door behind a contemporary gabled porch with wavy bargeboards. The main roof is gabled to right and hipped to right over the extension.
Interior: The framed structure of the C17 house appears to be well-preserved. The beams are chamfered with some scroll stops. Wall posts with formed jowls carry the tie beams but common rafter roof, a couple of them with high curving collars.
Up until 1917 the house was known as the Foresters Arms and was licensed to sell beer and tobacco. Apparently it was locally known as 'The Peep and Slip- it'. . Source Mary Standen. Pembury in the Past (1984) p.17.
Listing NGR: TQ6395441157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438453
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Standen, M, Pembury in the Past, (1984), 17
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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