Crittenden House
CRITTENDEN HOUSE, CRITTENDEN ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254230
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crittenden House
- Statutory Address:
- CRITTENDEN HOUSE, CRITTENDEN ROAD
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 1999-08-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/00438/11
- Rights:
- © Mr Laurie Jonas. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254230
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crittenden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRITTENDEN HOUSE, CRITTENDEN 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:
- CRITTENDEN HOUSE, CRITTENDEN 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 65729 43485
Details
TQ 64 SE PADDOCK WOOD CRITTENDEN
6/326 Crittenden House 11.5.88 II
Farmhouse. Early C17 with C19 and early. C20 alterations. Framed construction, the ground floor underbuilt in brick, the first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: The house faces south. 3 room lobby entrance plan, the 2 right hand (east) rooms heated from back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack, the left hand room heated from an end stack. Rear outshut and late C19 or C20 rear addition.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 4-window front with a C20 plank door to right of centre with an open gabled porch on chamfered timber posts. 4 C20 3- and 4-light timber casements with leaded panes. The right return is weatherboarded with a C20 single-storey lean-to addition. Left side entrance with a C20 gabled porch on timber posts. Plank door and elaborate iron hinges. The rear elevation has a gabled late C17 staircase projection, a brick outshut and 2 C20 dormer windows to the upper part of the outshut. Roof half-hipped at ends; tall brick shaft to the axial stack, date panel thought to read 1608; projecting left end stack with ribbed decoration.
Interior: Not inspected on survey of 1989 but said to be unchanged since the 1988 listing where it is described as follows: "Dining room with large wooden fireplace bressummer with the carved initials GP and IA, 2 gabled alcoves and a 2-panelled wooden cupboard with butterfly hinges. C20 chamfered ceiling joists. Lounge has iron fireback depicting Adam and Eve and the tree of Knowledge said to have been removed from a demolished mansion. Study has a fireback of 1592 with a 2 headed eagle and crowns and a curved brick fireplace with wooden bressummer and coved hood. Staircase bay has pegged rafters with no ridge piece and an oak dogleg staircase. First floor has gunstock jowled posts and some curved tension braces visible. Bathroom has a chamfered beam with lambs tongue stop. Old floorboards. Attic has very wide oak floorboards and 3 original C17 3-plank doors. Elsewhere in the house there are good copies of these made in the 1920s".
Roof: Not inspected but list description of 1988 records a staggered butt purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TQ6784344787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437663
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 18-Jun-2026 at 04:09:59.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.