Former Lloyds Bank, former Eight Bells Inn and Spyways
Spyways, High Street, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338720
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lloyds Bank, former Eight Bells Inn and Spyways
- Statutory Address:
- Spyways, High Street, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338720
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lloyds Bank, former Eight Bells Inn and Spyways
- Statutory Address 1:
- Spyways, High Street, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
- Statutory Address 2:
- The Star and Eagle Hotel, High Street, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
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:
- Spyways, High Street, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
- Statutory Address:
- The Star and Eagle Hotel, High Street, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
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 72309 37781
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 April 2023 to amend the name, update the address, amend the description due to change of building use and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 7237-7337
15/190
GOUDHURST
HIGH STREET (south side)
The Star and Eagle Hotel and Spyways
Former Lloyds Bank, Former Eight Bells Inn and Spyways
(Formerly listed as Former Lloyds Bank, Eight Bells Inn and Spways HIGH STREET)
20.6.67
GV
II
Range of houses, sometime Inn and shops, the former Lloyds Bank and Eight Bells Inn now incorporated into The Star and Eagle Hotel. C15. Timber framed and part exposed with plaster infill, otherwise tile hung, part painted, on red brick ground floor. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic with half-hipped roof at right stacks to rear centre right and clustered to centre left, with three hipped dormers.
The former Lloyds Bank to end left with four-and three-light leaded casements on first floor, and boarded door and 80 paned window to ground floor extension, with open passageway to right (with cusped woodwork). Former Eight Bells to centre, with four-lights mullioned and three-light mullioned and transomed windows on first floor, four-light casement and paired glazing bar sashes to right on ground floor, with half-glazed doors to left with flight of steps, and to centre right. Shuttered basement Spyways with paired sashes and three-light casement on first floor and tripartite sash on ground floor, with projecting bay to right, the upper section glazed and bracketed out, with half-glazed door in left side. The basement with boarded door with grille, louvred side opening, and water tank with spout set flush with wall, said to have been a lock-up at some stage. Projecting hipped framed rear wings to whole range. Although of more than one build, the interlacing tenures give the range same unity. Heavily framed interims and inglenooks reported, the framing reportedly early in character.
Listing NGR: TQ7230637777
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169540
- 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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