Black Swan Hall

BLACK SWAN HALL, CRANBROOK ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1338697
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Black Swan Hall
Statutory Address:
BLACK SWAN HALL, CRANBROOK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1338697
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Black Swan Hall
Statutory Address 1:
BLACK SWAN HALL, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BLACK SWAN HALL, 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:
Goudhurst
National Grid Reference:
TQ 73217 37815

Details

GOUDHURST CRANBROOK ROAD TQ 7237-7337 (south side) 15/159 Black Swan Hall GV II House C16, altered and extended mid C16. Timber-framed and rendered, with plain tiled roof. Continuous jettied lobby entry plan in origin, with rear wing. Entry now in right return elevation, with 2 storey and garret bargeboarded gable to left, hipped roof to right and 3 wooden casement to each floor in moulded surrounds, with bracketed cills. Central panelled door in moulded surround. Left return (original entrance front) of 2 storeys as plinth with continuous jetty and roof hipped with gablet to left, with moulded stack cluster to centre left. Three wooden casements on 1st floor, and 5 on ground floor, all on bracketed cills, that to centre left in projecting press underbuilt to jetty. The house was once the Black Swan alehouse. The brewhouse and cider press surviving to the C20.

Listing NGR: TQ7321737815

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
169509
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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