Vestry Hall
VESTRY HALL, STONE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336910
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Vestry Hall
- Statutory Address:
- VESTRY HALL, STONE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336910
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Vestry Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- VESTRY HALL, STONE STREET
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:
- VESTRY HALL, STONE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77676 36118
Details
CRANBROOK STONE STREET TQ 7736 SE (north east side) 10/219 - Vestry Hall GV II Vestry hall and cottage to rear. 1859 in a neo-Tudor style. Grey and red brick chequer with stone window dressings. Wooden eaves cornice to plain tiled roofs. 3-storey octagonal tower with octagonal cap and decorative finial to right. 2 storey section to left with half-timbered gable with bargeboards above wide octagonal oriel on first floor and wide carriage entrance on ground floor with flanking subsidiary entrances. Cross windows to front on ground floor and first floors of tower with flanking single-light windows and shallower windows on 2nd from above shallow parapet step. Tudor- arched doorway to left on room with ribbed door. LEFT RETURN FRONT: Angled corner to left with hipped roof above and large transomed and mullioned window on first floor. Segment-headed window on ground floor with two on left return front. 3 large transom and mullion windows to left with doorway below central window, all flanked by very shallow buttresses which break back from the wall plane and merge into plinth and wall under gable, rather like flayed skin. COTTAGE TO LEFT OF LEFT RETURN FRONT: Half timbered return gable to right with mullioned windows on 1st and ground floors. Tile-hung jetty to left with two windows on first floor and boarded and ribbed door below.
Listing NGR: TQ7768636120
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169072
- 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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