Anderson and Sons Butchers, George Hotel and Harper and Hurlingham

Anderson and Sons Butchers and George Hotel, Stone Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3HE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1075155
Date first listed:
09-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Anderson and Sons Butchers, George Hotel and Harper and Hurlingham
Statutory Address:
Anderson and Sons Butchers and George Hotel, Stone Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3HE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1075155
Date first listed:
09-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
13-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:
Anderson and Sons Butchers, George Hotel and Harper and Hurlingham
Statutory Address 1:
Anderson and Sons Butchers and George Hotel, Stone Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3HE
Statutory Address 2:
Harper and Hurlingham, The Corner House, Stone Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3HE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Anderson and Sons Butchers and George Hotel, Stone Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3HE
Statutory Address:
Harper and Hurlingham, The Corner House, Stone Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3HE

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 77651 36078

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 April 2023 to update the name and address, amend description due to change of building use and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 7736 SE
1608/10/242

CRANBROOK
STONE STREET (south west side)
Anderson and Sons Butchers, and The George Hotel, and Harper and Hurlingham, The Corner House.

(Formerly listed as The George Hotel, Anderson and Sons Butchers, Lemon Blue Gift Shop, Oliver Fisher Estate Agents, The Cornerhouse Offices, and The Cornerhouse Flat, STONE STREET, (Also listed under: HIGH STREET (South side))

09.06.1952

GV
II*
Cloth hall, now Inn, and shops. Circa 1400, altered in C16, extended in C17 and refronted to left in C19. Clad in C18. Timber framed with red brick ground floor and decorative tile-hanging on first floor, except two brick bays at entrance left. Wooden eaves cornice to plain tiled half-hipped roof. Two tall brick stacks to left and low stack to rear to right of centre. Six dormers irregularly spaced, that to extreme left wider, and all hipped except that to extreme right. Two storeys and attics. Regular eleven window front, glazing bar sashes with open boxes. Double shop-front to left with tiled surround, inset off-centre doorway with glazed doorway and deep fascia-board above. C19 double bowed shop front to right, with central glazed door topped by oval transom-light and flanked to left by later C19 shopfront with central glazed door. In centre and to left six glazing bar sashes with panelled doors to right of left hand most window and to left of fifth window from left. Balcony over this portion, under the third to eighth windows, with cast iron decorative railings and plastered cove beneath.

Interior: room on first floor now subdivided, used until C19 for the Justices' Sessions. Two-flight timber staircase of circa 1670, with square newel posts, flat-topped rail and short bulbous turned balusters.

Listing NGR: TQ7764736080

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
169093
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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