The Charity
THE CHARITY, 1-3, SCHOOL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349065
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Charity
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHARITY, 1-3, SCHOOL HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349065
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Charity
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHARITY, 1-3, SCHOOL HILL
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:
- THE CHARITY, 1-3, SCHOOL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamberhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67651 36388
Details
LAMBERHURST SCHOOL HILL TQ 6636-6736 (west side) 8/218 Nos. 1, 2 & 3 The Charity GV II
House, now house row. C15, altered and extended C16 and early C18, reconditioned late C20. Timber framed and exposed with plaster infill and with plain tiled roof. Wealden plan of four framed bays in origin. Two storeys, basement and attic on plinth with underbuilt jetties to left and right end bays, with surviving jetty returned to right on dragon post. Half-hipped roof with 3 gabled dormers and stack to end right and large stack churner to centre left. Four light and 2 three light C20 casements on each floor and rib and stud doors to left, centre right and right. Basement opening in right return in high plinth. The right end bay is separately framed and possibly added when the hall was ceiled over, indicated by a panel of tension braced framing to upper left. the rest of the framing, now inappropriately exposed, is late in character and meant only as a ground to the destroyed rendered and sashed facade described in the old provisional list. The building was formerly used as the village workhouse.
Listing NGR: TQ6765136388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 170055
- 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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