88, GROSVENOR ROAD
88, GROSVENOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084420
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 88, GROSVENOR ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 88, GROSVENOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084420
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 88, GROSVENOR ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 88, GROSVENOR 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:
- 88, GROSVENOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 58353 39971
Details
In the entry for GROSVENOR ROAD Nos. 86 and 88
TQ 5839 NW 3/334
The address should be amended to read -
TQ 5839 NW GROSVENOR ROAD 3/334 No. 88
The list was previously amended in respect of this entry on 23 November, 1987.
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GROSVENOR ROAD TQ 5839 NW 3/334 Nos 86 and 88 II Former purpose built carriage factory later used as educational establishment. Built c1891, architect H Cronk,in Queen Anne style. Built of brick with terracotta details, internally supported by girders which are probably of wrought iron. Slate roof, 3 storeys and attics and basement. 6 windows to main front along Grosvenor Road. Attic storey has central elaborate Dutch gable with console brackets and 2 casement windows flanked by triangular pediments with ball finials and Diocletian windows. Corners have slim octagonal turrets with ogee caps. 2nd floor windows are paired mullioned and transomed casements set in round headed arches with keystones and elaborate terracotta decoration to arches and decorated aprons. 1st floor windows are similar but without the round-headed arches. Ground floor has deep fascia and central doorcase with ramped up pediment like projection over it. Double doors flanked by pilasters. 4 shop fronts divided by pilasters, the top parts of the windows divided into tiny sections. Basement has cambered arches. Grosvenor Park elevation is in vernacular style with 1 pediment. Corner octagonal turrets with ogee caps and 3 windows. Further plainer section to rear of 3 storeys and basement of lower elevation. Brick with slate roof. 5 cambered mullioned and transomed windows with keystones and similar ground floor treatment. Internally the accommodation originally comprised showrooms on the ground floor and carriage makers and body makers shops on the 1st floor and painters and trimmers shops on the 2nd floor with a central carriage lift.
Listing NGR: TQ5836439982
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 168181
- 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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