Woodsden
WOODSDEN, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338747
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Woodsden
- Statutory Address:
- WOODSDEN, WATER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338747
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Woodsden
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODSDEN, WATER LANE
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:
- WOODSDEN, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77961 31833
Details
HAWKHURST WATER LANE TQ 73 SE (east side) 10/463 Woodsden GV II House. C16 or earlier altered C17, and C18-C19. Timber framed and clad with red brick and tile hung, with part exposed frame to return and rear elevations. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys with hipped roof and central stacks. Regular fenestration of 2 three light and central 2 light wooden casements on 1st floor, and 2 tripartite sashes on ground floor. Central boarded door in half-timbered gabled porch with moulded bargeboard. Single storey extension to left with sash and truncated stack at end left. Lower half hipped 2 storey wing to rear, with small additional C19 single storey extensions in part in English bond, and large C17 arch offset stack projecting at rear left (base within C19 extension). Right return with exposed studding (under restoration at time of survey). Interior: main range with full frame visible, with ogee-bracket moulded beams, others with tongue-stopped chamfers. Inglenook fireplaces. Renewed clasped purlin roof. Rear range with moulded beams, many re-used from earlier frame with window mullions mortices, chamfers and mouldings, all with inverted date: 1627; the whole frame iron-strapped C17/C18 and under restoration at time of survey. Bakehouse attached to rear stack originally with exterior hatches, bread oven and copper brick lined cellar.
Listing NGR: TQ7708932534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169814
- 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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