THE OLD LAUNDRY

THE OLD LAUNDRY, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250650
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: THE OLD LAUNDRY
Statutory Address:: THE OLD LAUNDRY, THE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250650
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Jan-1991
List Entry Name:: THE OLD LAUNDRY
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD LAUNDRY, THE GREEN

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 LAUNDRY, THE GREEN

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 65864 41810

Details

In the entries for the following serial numbers ---

14/156, 14/157, 14/158, 14/159, 14/160, 14/161, 14/162, 14/163, 14/164, 14/165 14/166, 14/167, 14/168, 14/169, 14/170, 14/171, 14/172, 14/173, 14/174, 14/175 14/176, 14/177, 14/178, 14/179, in the parish of Brenchley.

The address shall be amended to read---

"THE GREEN, Matfield" in place of "MATFIELD GREEN"

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TQ 65 41 BRENCHLEY MATFIELD GREEN (east side) 14/178 The Old Laundry

GV II

House. Circa 1700 with late C20 alterations. Framed construction, the front elevation roughcast; peg-tile roof; brick stack.

Plan: West facing. Single depth main block 2-rooms wide with a larger, heated room to the right, rear outshut. Single-storey addition at right end. In the 1920s and 30s the building was used as a laundry and the front single- storey addition was used as the ironing room (information from the owner).

Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay front to the main block with a deep mansard roof. Disused C19 front door in the centre, flanked by C19 3-light small-pane casements, 2 similar first floor windows. The 2 left hand windows each have top-hung panes, presumably to ventilate the laundry. Flat-roofed attic dormer with a small-pane C19 casement. The single-storey addition at the right end has a C20 front door to the left and garage doors to the right.

Interior: Modernised. The partition between the 2 rooms has been removed.

Listing NGR: TQ6586441810

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

Legacy System number:: 433100
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.