The Crescent
THE CRESCENT, BRENCHLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249092
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Crescent
- Statutory Address:
- THE CRESCENT, BRENCHLEY ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/00767/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249092
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Crescent
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CRESCENT, BRENCHLEY ROAD
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:
- THE CRESCENT, BRENCHLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brenchley and Matfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67327 41863
Details
TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, MARKET HEATH
15/49 The Crescent
II
Row of 4 small houses. Early C19 with late C19/early C20 bay windows. Flemish bond brick with blue headers to the ground floor, first floor tile- hung; slate roof; brick stacks.
Plan: The range faces approximately south and fronts the road. The front block is narrow and single depth, the rooms heated from axial stacks; heated rear wings at right angles.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front, curving slightly inwards towards the centre of the range. Roof hipped at left end, gabled at right end. Stacks with brick shafts with corbelled brick cornices. The left hand house is entered on the left return. The adjacent house to the right has a C19 panelled front door to right of centre with a gabled porch on posts. The centre house has a half-glazed front door to the left; the right hand house has a panelled C19 front door with a late porch on brackets. 5 first floor 4- pane plate glass sash windows; 4 ground floor canted bay windows with plate glass 4-pane sashes in the centre, 2-pane in the outer lights.
Interior: Not inspected.
The Crescent is shown in a late C19 photograph published in A Victorian Pictorial Record of Brenchlev and Matfield (n.d., c.1988). The bay windows have replaced sashes shown in this photograph.
Listing NGR: TQ6732741863
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430931
- 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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