Listed Building: SPWAYS (1338720)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1351, 15, 190
Date assigned 20 June 1967
Date last amended

Description

GOUDHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7237-7337 (south side) 15/190 Former Lloyds Bank, 20.6.67 Eight Bells Inn and Spways GV II Range of houses, sometime Inn and shops. C15. Timber framed and part exposed with plaster infill, otherwise tile hung, part painted, on red brick ground floor. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic with half-hipped roof at right stacks to rear centre right and clustered to centre left, with 3 hipped dormers. The former Lloyds Bank to end left with 4 and 3 light leaded casements on 1st floor, and boarded door and 80 paned window to ground floor extension, with open passageway to right (with cusped woodwork). Former Eight Bells to centre, with 4 lights mullioned and 3 light mullioned and transomed windows on 1st floor, 4 light casement and paired glazing bar sashes to right on ground floor, with half-glazed doors to left with flight of steps, and to centre right. Shuttered basement Spways with paired sashes and 3 light casement on 1st floor and tripartite sash on ground floor, with projecting bay to right, the upper section glazed and bracketed out, with half-glazed door in left side. The basement with boarded door with grille, louvred side opening, and water tank with spout set flush with wall, said to have been a lock-up at some stage. Projecting hipped framed rear wings to whole range. Although of more than 1 build, the interlacing tenures give the range same unity. Heavily framed interims and inglenooks reported, the framing reportedly early in character. Listing NGR: TQ7230637777

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7230 3778 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NW
Civil Parish GOUDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Jun 2 2010 12:19PM