The Camden Arms
THE CAMDEN ARMS, HASTINGS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254386
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Camden Arms
- Statutory Address:
- THE CAMDEN ARMS, HASTINGS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254386
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Camden Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CAMDEN ARMS, HASTINGS 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 CAMDEN ARMS, HASTINGS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pembury
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 62506 40722
Details
TQ 62 40 PEMBURY HASTINGS ROAD
13/361 The Camden Arms (formerly listed as 20.10.54 The Camden Hotel) GV II
Public house and restaurant, formerly a hotel. C18 with C19 and C20 modernisations, most recently circa 1980. Ground floor is plastered brick, timber-framed above and hung with peg-tile; brick stacks and chimneyshafts with some old chimneypots; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Large double depth building facing north onto the Upper Green. Most of the ground floor layout has been lost as partitions have been removed to create large bar and restaurant spaces. It had 2 main front doorways separating the 3 front rooms. The right (east) doorway is now blocked. Left end room has end stack and centre room had a stack backing onto the left entrance hall. Rear rooms have similar stacks. Right front room has an end stack but the room to rear, which projects to rear has a rear stack. It was probably the kitchen.
2 storeys with various C19 and C20 service extensions to rear.
Exterior: Regular 5-window front including 3 canted bays. 2 full height but the right one is only single storey. Each bay has ground floor 16-pane sash windows flanked by 8-pane sashes and first floor 12-pane (4/8) sash windows with flanking 6-pane sashes. The other first floor windows are C19 casements with glazing bars and at ground floor level a C20 window blocks the right doorway. Old photographs show that this doorway was much like the surviving one to left, just a little smaller. Part-glazed panelled door behind a large Tuscan porch up 3 steps. Its moulded entablature includes a modillion cornice. Plain eaves and parallel roofs are hipped both end. Similar style continued round the other sides although some of it replaced in the C20.
Interior: Shows largely the results of C20 modernisations.
Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ6250640722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437752
- 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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