Forge House
FORGE HOUSE, BUCKHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084763
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Forge House
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE HOUSE, BUCKHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084763
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Forge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE HOUSE, BUCKHURST 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:
- FORGE HOUSE, BUCKHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Frittenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 81556 41210
Details
FRITTENDEN BUCKHURST ROAD TQ 8041-8141 (north side) 13/8 Forge House - GV II House. Exterior c.1700. Red and blue brick, with rendered return elevations, tile hung gables and weather boarded rear wing. Two storeys on plinth with low buttresses to corners. Three course plant band (settled at end left and end right) and half-hipped roof. Stack to end left, and large projecting and double offset stack in irregular band at end right. Two 3 light wooden casements on each floor those on ground floor with segmental heads and offset from first floor windows. Blocked segmentally headed doorways to left centre and (with head) to right centre. Present entry by half-glazed door in right return in glazed and raking C20 porch. Gabled wings to rear.
Listing NGR: TQ8155641210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169357
- 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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