Listed Building: ASHLEIGH AND HUNDRED HOUSE AND THE CORNER HOUSE (1084832)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1608, 12, 199
Date assigned 20 June 1967
Date last amended

Description

CRANBROOK THE HILL TQ 7735 NE (south west side) 12/199 Hundred House, Ashleigh 20.6.67 and The Corner House (formerly listed as Myrtle Cottage, Ashleigh and the Corner House) GV II Cloth hall, now 3 houses. Late C15, clad in C18. Timber framed and weather- boarded on brick plinth. Plain tiled roof, with tall brick stack behind ridge to right and slope stack at extreme right. Projecting gabled wings at both ends of front, both probably underbuilt jetties, with wavy-edged bargeboards on right gable. 2 storeys and garrets in gables. 1 window on 2nd floor in each gable, 6 on first floor and 5 on ground floor, all slightly irregular, with large shop type window to extreme right, 2 wooden cross-windows on first floor under right hand gable And single casement above. Wide glazing bar sashes elsewhere. Boarded door to right of extreme left hand window and another to left of right hand projection, with glazed door to left of extreme right hand window. Entrance also in left hand end. Interior: Substantial timber frame with very heavily jowled posts. Crown post collar purlin roof over centre and similar roof over solar (in Hundred House to right). 2 door- ways survive in Hundred House. Listing NGR: TQ7790435890

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7790 3588 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NE
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM