Crane House and Rear Garden Wall

CRANE HOUSE AND REAR GARDEN WALL, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084612
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:
Crane House and Rear Garden Wall
Statutory Address:
CRANE HOUSE AND REAR GARDEN WALL, HIGH STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084612
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Crane House and Rear Garden Wall
Statutory Address 1:
CRANE HOUSE AND REAR GARDEN WALL, HIGH STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CRANE HOUSE AND REAR GARDEN WALL, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:
Hawkhurst
National Grid Reference:
TQ 75868 30668

Details

HAWKHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7430-7530 (north side) 16/338 Crane House (formerly listed as 20.6.67 Crane Croft) and rear garden wall - II House, now flats. C18, altered and extended C19 and mid C20. Painted brick, with painted tile hanging to right return and weather-boarded and tile hung rear eleva- tion. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys on plinth with plat band and pilasters to left and to right to parapet to hipped roof with stacks to centre right and to rear left and rear right. Tripartite sashes to left and to right and 2 central sashes to centre on each floor, those on ground floor with segmental heads, that to centre left the original doorway (photographs show a columned porch). Present entry by half-glazed door in hipped porch on right return. Left return with glaz- ing bar sash and sash and French doors with valanced hood, with irregular rear wings. Projecting from rear left a red and blue chequered brick wall, about 6 feet high in English garden wall bond. C18, and extended with red brick, with cogged capping, returned after some 20 yards to west, about 50 yards along rear of garden.

Listing NGR: TQ7586830668

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
169688
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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