Ratcliffe House Ratcliffe House and Russets and Stable Wing Attached Russets

RATCLIFFE HOUSE AND RUSSETS AND STABLE WING ATTACHED, NORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084687
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Ratcliffe House Ratcliffe House and Russets and Stable Wing Attached Russets
Statutory Address:
RATCLIFFE HOUSE AND RUSSETS AND STABLE WING ATTACHED, NORTH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084687
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Ratcliffe House Ratcliffe House and Russets and Stable Wing Attached Russets
Statutory Address 1:
RATCLIFFE HOUSE AND RUSSETS AND STABLE WING ATTACHED, NORTH ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
RATCLIFFE HOUSE, NORTH ROAD
Statutory Address 3:
RUSSETS, NORTH ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RATCLIFFE HOUSE AND RUSSETS AND STABLE WING ATTACHED, NORTH ROAD
Statutory Address:
RATCLIFFE HOUSE, NORTH ROAD
Statutory Address:
RUSSETS, NORTH ROAD

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:
TQ7240838122

Details

GOUDHURST NORTH ROAD
TQ 73 NW (east side)

5/228
Ratcliffe House and
Russets and stable
wing attached
GV II
House pair. C16, clad and extended early C18 and early C19. Timber framed and
tile hung, the C18 wing with red and blue brick to ground floor. Plain tiled
roof. Two storeys, extended with 2 storeys and attic on brick plinth, with
slight jetty and projection to upper left window bay, with moulded wooden eaves
cornice, stepped up to right, to half-hipped roof, also stepped up to right at
panelled stack. Four 3 light wooden casements on each floor and panelled door
to centre right with flat hood on brackets. Present entries in left and right
returns, with gabled porch to latter. Right return brickwork in English garden
wall bond, with blue vitrified headers, as also to base of rear wing, the upper
floor rebuilt C19. Older, lower wing weather boarded to rear. Interior of C18
wing: exposed late frame round-backed brick fireplace with slight coving. Brick
lined cellar. Projecting to front left of the houses is the stable range, early
C19 of red and blue chequered brick with slate roof, with some corrugated iron.
The lower part of the wall is an old garden wall included in the structure of
the stables, left return front buttressed, with carriage openings, and multi-
paned window and 2 wooden casements. The house was at sometime a public house.


Listing NGR: TQ7240838122

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
169578
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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