Natal House
NATAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237241
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Natal House
- Statutory Address:
- NATAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237241
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Natal House
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- NATAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hadlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63283 49703
Details
HADLOW HIGH STREET (south side) TQ 63 49 7/79 Natal House 20.10.54
GV II
House. Late C17/early C18, some late C19 modernisation. Flemish bond brick including burnt headers, rear is timber-framed and clad with peg-tile; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Double-depth plan house set back from the road and facing north north west, say north. It is 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep with the main stair between the 2 rear rooms. The front rooms are the principal rooms, parlour to left (east) and kitchen to right, with service rooms to rear. The parlour has a slightly projecting end stack and the kitchen end stack is shared with the adjoining house. It seems that in the late C19 Natal was converted to the service block of the Victorian House adjoining to right (west). Before that there was probably a passage through the kitchen from the front doorway to the stair. There is now a passage along the back of the kitchen which looks as though it once led through the right end wall. This appears to be an original feature. House is 2 storeys.
Exterior: Nearly symmetrical 2-window front. 3 are C19 tripartite sash windows containing central 12-pane sashes. The ground floor right one has a low segmental arch over. The parlour window, ground floor left, is a late C19 canted bay window with a flat roof; it has a tripartite sash containing a 16- pane sash. The central front doorway contains a C19 6-panel door under a shallow flat-roofed hood. A flat brick band projects at first floor level. Moulded timber eaves cornice. Roof is hipped both ends. Rear has 2 parallel roofs at right angles to the front roof and both are hipped to rear. Some of the first floor windows to rear are original, flat-faced mullion windows containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The stair window is one of the originals and has a segmental arch head.
Interior: Has plain carpentry detail where exposed but most of the structure appears to be original. However what little that could be seen of the roof structure suggests that it was replaced in the C19.
Natal is one of a number of attractive and varied listed buildings on Hadlow High Street.
Listing NGR: TQ6328349703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179515
- 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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