1-17, CALVERLEY PARK CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1346502
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: 1-17, CALVERLEY PARK CRESCENT
Statutory Address:: 1-17, CALVERLEY PARK CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1346502
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: 1-17, CALVERLEY PARK CRESCENT
Statutory Address 1:: 1-17, CALVERLEY PARK CRESCENT

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: 1-17, CALVERLEY PARK CRESCENT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 58755 39459

Details

CALVERLEY PARK CRESCENT 1. 1746 Nos 1 to 17 (consec) TQ 5839 SE 7/80 24.11.66 II* GV

2. This crescent was originally called Calverley Promenade. It was built in 1828-1835 and was designed as shops with lodging houses above, but they later became houses. No 1 was the bath-house, and in the centre house was a reading room with a billiard room over. Decimus Burton Architect. Built of local Tunbridge Wells stone. The ground floor of the garden front is stuccoed. 3 storeys and basement cornice and parapet. 2 sashes to each with most glazing bars intact. French windows on the 1st floor. On the 1st floor is a continuous stuccoed balcony supported on a slender iron colonnade based on a raised platform with an iron railing above the colonnade. The end houses (Nos 1 and 17) and the 3 centre houses (Nos 8,9 and 10) project slightly and have a cornice below the top floor. The end houses also have curved bays at the sides. Nos 1 to 17 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5875239458

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Legacy System number:: 167930
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.