White Lion House
White Lion House, High Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3DF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084849
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion House
- Statutory Address:
- White Lion House, High Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3DF
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084849
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion House
- Statutory Address 1:
- White Lion House, High Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3DF
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:
- White Lion House, High Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3DF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77618 36064
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 October 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 7736 SE
10/141
CRANBROOK
HIGH STREET (south side)
White Lion House
(Formerly listed as International Stores)
GV
II
Cloth hall, now shop. Late C15 or early C16, clad in C19, with C18, C19 or C20 alterations and extensions. Timber-framed, clad in red brick on ground floor and tile hung on first floor. Rendered to rear. Plain tiled roof with projecting gabled return wing to left. End stack to right, C19 decorative bargeboards on left hand gable and hipped dormer on left hand slope of return wing. Two storeys and attics. Irregular three window front, glazing bar sashes, with full width projecting later C20 shop front on ground floor. Two storey half hipped C18 wing to rear.
Interior: ground floor cleared for supermarket with boxed in frame and iron supports. Frame visible on first floor and in roof, with heavy scantling collar purlin roof, though no crown post visible.
Listing NGR: TQ7761936066
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 168990
- 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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