Listed Building: MANCHESTER HOUSE WITH THE POST OFFICE AND HEATH STORES (1084513)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1355, 7, 119
Date assigned 10 October 1989
Date last amended

Description

HORSMONDEN THE HEATH TQ 6840-6940 & 7040-7140 (south side) 6 & 7/119 Manchester House with The Post office and Heath Stores GV II House and shop pair. C18, altered and extended late C19. Red and blue chequered brick to ground floor and tile hung first floor, extended with red brick. Plain tiled roof. Main block of 2 storeys and attic with ground floor built out with pentice roof, and with half-hipped roof with stacks to rear left and to centre and with 2 hipped dormers. Three top-hung C20 casements on first floor and multi-paned shop windows on ground floor with central boarded door. Single storey extension to right (Heath Stores) with stack at end right. Projecting C19 plate glass shop front on ground floor with doubled half-glazed doors to centre left. Both blocks with catslide outshots to rear, that to the Post Office particularly notable. Listing NGR: TQ7001340513

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7000 4052 (point)
Map sheet TQ74SW
Civil Parish HORSMONDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM