TQ 44404611 - OS 1:2500 1965 5280 EDENBRIDGE EDENBRIDGE High Street (East Side) No 69 (Taylour House) TQ 4446 12/412 10.9.54. Grade II* C15 timber framed house much altered externally. Now front of 2 tall storeys, 2 windows. Double span building has old tiled roofs hipped at left, C17 chimney stack of 3 linked shafts on ridge. Tile hung 1st floor, painted brick ground floor, rendered plinth. 1st floormodern mullioned and transomed windows with diamond leading. At back exposed framing, partly restored, and plaster filling. Inside much visible timber with moulded beams and old doors and frames. Upstairs room has 2 well-preserved painted walls of early C17,one with scrolls of foliage another with scene of Judith and Holopernes and arms of James I. Also early C17 staircase with flat, urn-shaped balusters. Arms in spandrel over doorway are of Sir WilliamTaylour, Lord Mayor of London in 1469, whose house this was. (1) Taylor House, timber-framed, much pulled about. On the door the arms in the spandrel are of Sir William Taylour, Lord Mayor of London in 1469. An upper room has unusually much wall painting. On one wall big scrolly aragesques of foliage, on another the arms of James I and partof the scene of Judith and Holofernes. Dateable c. 1610-20, and in thesame sort of spirit as Thomas Toft's pottery. Staircase early 17th century also, with flat shaped balusters.

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EDENBRIDGE EDENBRIDGE 1. 5280 High Street (East Side) No 69 (Taylour House) TQ 4446 12/412 10.9.54. II* 2. C15 timber framed house much altered externally. Now front of 2 tall storeys, 2 windows. Double span building has old tiled roofs hipped at left, C17 chimney stack of 3 linked shafts on ridge. Tile hung 1st floor, painted brick ground floor, rendered plinth. 1st floor modern mullioned and transomed windows with diamond leading. At back exposed framing, partly restored, and plaster filling. Inside much visible timber with moulded beams and old doors and frames. Upstairs room has 2 well-preserved painted walls of early C17, one with scrolls of foliage another with scene of Judith and Holopernes and arms of James I. Also early C17 staircase with flat, urn-shaped balusters. Arms in spandrel over doorway are of Sir William Taylour, Lord Mayor of London in 1469, whose house this was.
Listing NGR: TQ4441446027 (1-3)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks RD Kent Jan 1975 106 (OS Card Reference). SKE41029.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 274 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37982.