Broad Cloth, the Old Studio, Little Cottage
BROAD CLOTH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084853
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Broad Cloth, the Old Studio, Little Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BROAD CLOTH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084853
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Broad Cloth, the Old Studio, Little Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROAD CLOTH, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- LITTLE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE OLD STUDIO, HIGH STREET
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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.
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:
- BROAD CLOTH, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD STUDIO, 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:
- Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77397 35966
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/01/2018
TQ 7735 NW, 11/152
CRANBROOK ,
HIGH STREET (south side),
Broad Cloth, The Old Studio, Little Cottage
(Formerly listed as: The Old Studio, Studio Cottage and Hilldale; Previously listed as: The Old Studio)
09.06.52
GV
II
Cloth hall of Wealden type, now three cottages. Late C15, floored in C16, with
C19 alterations and extensions. Timber-framed on red brick plinths, exposed
with plaster infilling and close-studded under gable to left, with curved
braces to right. Plain tiled roof, hipped to right, with gabled return wing
to left. Moulded bargeboards to left. Tall brick stack behind ridge to right
and hipped dormer to right of centre. Left-hand gable jettied out over ground
floor on moulded wooden bressummer and brackets. Eaves in centre overhangs on
braces. Right-hand-most first floor bay jettied out over ground floor on
joists and brackets. Two storeys and attics. Single window in gable to left.
Irregular 4-window first floor and 3-window ground floor, casements, those on
first and attic floors under gable C19 transom and mullion cross casements.
C19 and C20 wooden casements elsewhere. Moulded round-headed doorway to right
under left-hand jetty with boarded and ribbed door. Central carriage entrance
and boarded door to left of right-hand window.
In the C18 and early C19 Little Cottage (formerly Studio
Cottage) was used as a Nonconformist Chapel. In the later C19 Thomas Webster
RA and F D Morely RA lived here.
Listing NGR: TQ7740235944
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169001
- 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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