Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets

Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets, High Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3DN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084369
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:
Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets
Statutory Address:
Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets, High Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3DN
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Date:
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084369
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
19-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets
Statutory Address 1:
Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets, High Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3DN

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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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:
Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets, High Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3DN

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 77501 36012

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 SW
9/147

CRANBROOK
HIGH STREET (south side)
Bell House Fabrics and Interiors and Butler House Carpets

(Formerly listed as Bell House and Alliance Building Society, previously listed as house attached to G C Barden & Sons, Builders, House attached to A Butler & Sons, Plumbers, Avondale, Riverdale & Ferndale)

20.6.67

GV
II
Cottage row, now office and house, converted to shops during late 1980s. Late C16, early C17, clad in C18. Timber framed and clad in stucco on ground floor and weatherboarded on first floor. Boxed eaves to plain tiled roof, half hipped to left. Stack at left end and large stack to rear at left of centre. Three hipped dormers. Continuous jetty on moulded bressummer with tiled pentice above, over ground floor. Two storeys and attics. Five window front, with four two storey canted bays containing glazing bar sashes to left, and single casement on first floor at extreme right. Paired boarded doors to right of left hand bay, and single doors to left of right hand bay and at right end, in blocked former carriage-entrance.

Listing NGR: TQ7750036012

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
168996
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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