THE OLD CLOTH HALL

THE OLD CLOTH HALL, COURSEHORN LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1084868
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: THE OLD CLOTH HALL
Statutory Address:: THE OLD CLOTH HALL, COURSEHORN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1084868
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: THE OLD CLOTH HALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD CLOTH HALL, COURSEHORN LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: THE OLD CLOTH HALL, COURSEHORN LANE

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 79102 35728

Details

CRANBROOK COURSEHORN LANE TQ 73 NE (west side) 3/82 The Old Cloth Hall 9.6.52 - II*

Cloth hall, now house. C15, floored in C16 with subsidiary C17 wing with some C18 cladding; restored and extended in early C20. Timber framed and clad in red brick on ground floor exposed with some close studding and curved braces on first floor. North side tile hung. Plain tiled roofs. Tall brick stack to rear of left hand wing on ridge. Stack off-ridge to front to right. L-plan with earlier wing to left. 2 storeys and attics. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows on first floor and 2 on ground floor of wing to left and 4 windows on both floors of end of projecting wing to right. Projecting stair bay on left wing with short catslide roof. Wide and shallow square bay with small pentice roof at end of left hand wing. 2 storey hipped roofed porch to right in angle with right wing. Tudor-arched entrance with moulded wooden surround and boarded and ribbed door. Interior: substantial timber frame with jowled posts. Roof of possible crown post type with only part open showing collars removed. Large kitchen fireplace with very wide chamfered bressummer.

Listing NGR: TQ7910235728

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 168932
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.