Crabtree
CRABTREE, CRANBROOK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281592
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Crabtree
- Statutory Address:
- CRABTREE, CRANBROOK ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281592
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Crabtree
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRABTREE, CRANBROOK 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:
- CRABTREE, CRANBROOK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Benenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 79604 34393
Details
In the entry for TQ 73 SE BENENDEN COURSETHORN LANE 1350-0/2/14 Crabtree - II
The address shall be amended to read
TQ 73 SE BENENDEN CRANBROOK ROAD 1350-0/2/14 Crabtree - II
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BENENDEN TQ73SE COURSETHORN LANE 1350-0/2/14 Crabtree II House. Late C16 timberframed lobby entrance house, altered c.1729, outshut added and refenestrated in C19. Exterior refronted in red brick in a mixture of Flemish and English bond to ground floor and tile hung to 1st floor. Tiled roof, hipped to left and half-hipped to right with cruciform late C16 brick chimneystack. 2 storeys, 3 windows. C19 metal casements with diamond panes and simple doorcase. Gable and outshut to rear. Interior has 2 large open fireplaces. Hall fireplace has salt cupboard and marks of crane. Chamfered spine beam with lamb's tongue stop. Parlour has C18 cupboard. 1st floor bedroom has early C19 duck's nest grate. Probably reroofed in 1729. The building appears to be shown on a 1777 Cranbrook estate map as Holding Farm and was gamekeeper's cottages to the estate within living memory.
Listing NGR: TQ7960434393
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 170122
- 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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