Listed Building: COURSEHORN (1336925)

Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1608, 3, 83
Date assigned 20 June 1967
Date last amended

Description

CRANBROOK COURSEHORN LANE TQ 73 NE (east side) 3/83 Coursehorn 20.6.67 GV II* Cloth hall, now boarding house of Dulwich College Preparatory School. C16, clad and altered in mid C18. Timber framed with red and blue brick chequer ground floor and tile hung first floor. Plain tiled hipped roof with large end stack to right and stack on wing to left at rear. 2 gabled dormers. 2 storeys and attics; regular 4 window front, glazing bar sashes with open boxes. Entrance with panelled door in architrave surround and flat hood on curved brackets over on right return front. Now attached to C20 1 storey school buildings to rear at right. Interior: heavy framing apparent with heavy ribbed and moulded ceiling beams over 1st floor. Very large fireplace at east end of hall with wide Tudor arched fireplace and decorated spandrels set in shallow Tudor arched recess. Decorated bressummer in rear room's fireplace, probably brought in. Queen post, side purlin roof now partially hidden. Window shut- ters still complete. Single C16 moulded doorway on ground floor. Listing NGR: TQ7926635858

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7925 3582 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NE
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM