Hatchways
HATCHWAYS, CROOKE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249520
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Hatchways
- Statutory Address:
- HATCHWAYS, CROOKE ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/00767/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249520
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Hatchways
- Statutory Address 1:
- HATCHWAYS, CROOKE 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:
- HATCHWAYS, CROOKE 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 69215 42334
Details
TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY CROOKE ROAD, Castle Hill
6/64 Hatchways
II
House. Circa 1700 with late C19 and C20 rear additions. Framed construction, the ground floor roughcast, the first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: North facing. The house was formerly 2 cottages and may have been built as 2. Main block L-plan, the right hand (west) end roofed on an east west axis with a crosswing at the left (east) end, each room heated by end stacks. To the rear there is a second, probably later block also roofed on an east west axis and the crosswing has been extended to the rear in the C19.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, the roof half-hipped to the front at the left and half-hipped at the right end. Large projecting end stacks with tile-hang batters. 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-light timber casement windows, probably C19, with glazing bars. Present entrance on left return through a C20 conservatory.
Interior: Exposed carpentry with runout stops to the main beams. The right hand fireplace has an original lintel. The left hand fireplace has a large square projecting bread oven. Wall-framing with jowled wall posts.
Listing NGR: TQ6921542334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431640
- 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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