Iden House Iden House, Or Old Swatlands Old Swatlands
IDEN HOUSE, CRANBROOK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139022
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Iden House Iden House, Or Old Swatlands Old Swatlands
- Statutory Address:
- IDEN HOUSE, CRANBROOK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139022
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Iden House Iden House, Or Old Swatlands Old Swatlands
- Statutory Address 1:
- IDEN HOUSE, CRANBROOK ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- IDEN HOUSE, OR OLD SWATLANDS, CRANBROOK ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- OLD SWATLANDS, CRANBROOK 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.
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:
- IDEN HOUSE, CRANBROOK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- IDEN HOUSE, OR OLD SWATLANDS, CRANBROOK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SWATLANDS, CRANBROOK 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:
- TQ 74096 37542
Details
GOUDHURST CRANBROOK ROAD TQ 73 NW (south side) 5/158 Iden House, or Old Swatlands GV II House. C15, extended late C20. Timber-framed and part exposed with plaster infill on red brick ground floor, extended with red brick. Plain tiled roof. Hall house origin. Entrance front: the right return of the medieval range, with C20 extension. Two storey to left, with hip-end, hipped extension of 1 storey to right, and 2 storey hipped wing to rear. Four light mullioned window to left on 1st floor, and C20 casements to ground floor. Central boarded door and sidelights in pentice/porch. Left return: 2 storeys and attic with hipped roof and gablets and stack to centre right. Hipped dormer. Moulded 3-light mullioned window to left, and 3 mullioned windows on 1st floor, and 2 wooden casements, and C20 bay on ground floor. Interior: the main range appears to be an end-jettied hall house in origin, the end left bay (ie rear to entrance elevation), with smoke-blackened beams and plaster to dividing wall to central bay, but end bay probably a later rebuilding however. Crown post roof the central trussed bays with ogee bracing. Moulded crown post in right end bay, octagonal with capital and base, about 2½ feet high on hollow chamfered and cambered tie beam, the chamfer running out at floor level. The exterior wall of the end bay, now within the house, with sections of simple pargetted lathe and plaster wall. Ground floor rooms with fine double hollow chamfered and fillet moulded beams (moulded mullioned window with hollow chamfer and triple bead). Along the outer rear central walls of this range is probably C14 crenellated and moulded beam with 2 arched service doorways, which may indicate that the surviving range was a cross-wing to en earlier hall, or may be a later insertion (an adjacent bay has been reconstructed late C20 from demolished medieval and C17-C18 buildings). Wainscotting in upper parlour of c.1700. Bricks in left return inscribed: MM '90, Wm Allwork July ..., both c.1800.
Listing NGR: TQ7409637542
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169508
- 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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