Commercial House
COMMERCIAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363137
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Commercial House
- Statutory Address:
- COMMERCIAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363137
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Commercial House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMMERCIAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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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:
- COMMERCIAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hadlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63365 49799
Details
HADLOW HIGH STREET (north side) TQ 63 49 7/73 Commercial House 20.10.54
GV II
House with shop and post office. Late C18/early C19 with late C19 shop front. White-washed Flemish bond brick; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Double depth plan house facing south east onto the street. Front and back room either side of central entrance hall and main stair. This arrangement has been somewhat altered since the building has been subdivided. Rooms heated by axial stacks and end stack to front of left end. Front left room is a shop.
3 storeys with secondary extensions to rear.
Exterior: Originally a symmetrical 3-window front but now a late C19 shop and porch projects in front of the centre and right end at ground floor level. Porch has a 4-panel door under a tall overlight with no glazing bars. It is flush with the shop front. Shop has central recessed doorway similar to the house doorway except that here there is a C20 glazed door. Shop window with plain glazing bars. At right end and flanking both doorways are panelled pilasters. Continuous fascia, moulded entablature and flat roof. All the original windows have flat arches of rubbed brick. Ground and first floor have 16-pane sashes and second floor has shorter 8-pane sashes. Plain parapet. Twin roofs parallel to the street are hipped both end. Rear first floor windows have segmental arch heads and contain 12-pane sashes.
Interior: Not inspected but is said to have been rearranged and that little original joinery remains.
Commercial House is one of a varied group of listed buildings in the middle of Hadlow.
Listing NGR: TQ6336549799
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179509
- 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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