Goudhurst House and Newsagent's Shop
GOUDHURST HOUSE AND NEWSAGENT'S SHOP, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084672
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Goudhurst House and Newsagent's Shop
- Statutory Address:
- GOUDHURST HOUSE AND NEWSAGENT'S SHOP, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084672
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Goudhurst House and Newsagent's Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOUDHURST HOUSE AND NEWSAGENT'S SHOP, 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.
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:
- GOUDHURST HOUSE AND NEWSAGENT'S SHOP, 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:
- Goudhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 72302 37818
Details
GOUDHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7237-7337 (north side) 15/187 Goudhurst House and Newsagent's shop GV II House and Newsagent's shop. C18. Timber framed and clad with tile hanging, with red brick and mathematical tile to return elevations. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic on plinth with parapet to gambrel roof, with 2 flat roofed dormers and stacks to rear left and to rear right, and projecting and truncated at end right. Originally regular fenestration, with 3 light mullioned and transomed wooden casements to left and right and 2-light window to centre on 1st floor. Three light casement to left on ground floor, and late C19 plate glass shop front to right, with canted bays and doubled half-glazed doors. Central half-glazed door with traceried semicircular fanlight and pediment-shaped hood. Two storey hipped rear wing. Sometime Poor House, run by "General" George Street, who had organised the successful resistance to the attack on Goudhurst by the Hawkhurst Smuggling Gang in 1747.
Listing NGR: TQ7229637828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169537
- 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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