Listed Building: WEBSTER HOUSE AND RAILINGS TO NORTH (1357564)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1608, 11, 156
Date assigned 19 May 1986
Date last amended

Description

CRANBROOK HIGH STREET TQ 7735 NW (south side) 11/156 - Webster House and railings to north GV II House. Early C18 block with alterations and additions of 1875-76 by Richard Norman Shaw for Thomas Webster, RA, in front of C17 building. Red brick with orange dressings. Broken moulded brick cornice over ground floor and contin- uous bands over first floor and over second floor under brick-caped parapet. Roof concealed by parapet. Tall brick stack to rear. 3 storeys. Regular 5 bay front, with sashes without glazing bars in segment head surrounds on first and second floors. 2 canted C19 bays on ground floor flanking panelled door with fluted Doric pilaster surround carrying full Doric entablature with trig- lyphs and metopes containing paterae. Spearhead railings, four foot higher on red brick plinth around three sides of front enclosure with central gateway. Listing NGR: TQ7734635941

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7734 3594 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NE
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM