Manchester House With the Post Office and Heath Stores
MANCHESTER HOUSE WITH THE POST OFFICE AND HEATH STORES, THE HEATH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084513
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Manchester House With the Post Office and Heath Stores
- Statutory Address:
- MANCHESTER HOUSE WITH THE POST OFFICE AND HEATH STORES, THE HEATH
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- 2002-06-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/07140/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084513
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Manchester House With the Post Office and Heath Stores
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANCHESTER HOUSE WITH THE POST OFFICE AND HEATH STORES, THE HEATH
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:
- MANCHESTER HOUSE WITH THE POST OFFICE AND HEATH STORES, THE HEATH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsmonden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 70008 40521
Details
HORSMONDEN THE HEATH TQ 6840-6940 & 7040-7140 (south side) 6 & 7/119 Manchester House with The Post office and Heath Stores GV II
House and shop pair. C18, altered and extended late C19. Red and blue chequered brick to ground floor and tile hung first floor, extended with red brick. Plain tiled roof. Main block of 2 storeys and attic with ground floor built out with pentice roof, and with half-hipped roof with stacks to rear left and to centre and with 2 hipped dormers. Three top-hung C20 casements on first floor and multi-paned shop windows on ground floor with central boarded door. Single storey extension to right (Heath Stores) with stack at end right. Projecting C19 plate glass shop front on ground floor with doubled half-glazed doors to centre left. Both blocks with catslide outshots to rear, that to the Post Office particularly notable.
Listing NGR: TQ7000840521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169955
- 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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