Listed Building record TQ 54 NE 300 - 124 HIGH STREET

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1999 timber framed house

Location

Grid reference TQ 59054 46595 (point)
Map sheet TQ54NE
Civil Parish TONBRIDGE, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. HIGH STREET 1732 (West Side)
No 124 TO 5946 NW 3/24 8.5.50.
II* GV
2. Another good example of a restored Cl5 timber-framed house. 4 storeys. 2 windows. First and second floors overhang on the protruding ends of the floor Joists and brackets but the ground floor has been underbuilt-and now consists of a modern shop front. Wide curved braces curving outwards on first and second floors with small 4-light oriel windows not apparently original. The attic floor has 2 gables, each with curved braces arranged in the opposite pattern to those below, the ends meeting and forming a V upside down. Each gable has 2 very small. casement windows, separated in each case by an upright timber.
Nos 122, 124, 126, 126A & 128 together form a group
Listing NGR: TQ5905446596

Description from record TQ 54 NE 12 :
1. HIGH STREET (West Side) No 122 (Ye Olde Chequers Inn) TQ 5946 NW 3/23 8.5.50. II* GV (TQ 59064658 - O.S. 1:2500 1969) 2. Very good example of a C15 timber-framed building. 3 storeys. 5 windows. Built in 4 sections, 2 projecting, 2 recessed. The southernmost section has the top of a pointed arch leading to the basement and now a shoot for goods; ground floor studded with an oriel window of 6 lights with wooden mullions and transom, cove beneath it and moulded cornice over; first floor projecting on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets with wide curved braces and modern casement windows with lozenge-shaped panes; second floor similarly projecting with gable above having decorative cuurved timbers arranged in the opposite way to the braces and forming a semi-circle, also cusped bargeboards. The second section is recessed but the ground floor is now built out with a modern window, above studded with 5-light modern casement window and a dormer. The third section containing the doorways has a first floor projecting on brackets with a cove beneath, curved braces, a sash window and a dormer with casement window. The north section had its first floor formerly jettied on the projecting ends of the floor but the ground floor is now underbuilt with 2 modern windows; curved braces and 2 sash windows on first floor; gable above but lower than the other with 1 casement window, curved timbers arranged the opposite way to the braces below and cusped bargeboards. Tiled roof. Glazing bars intact in the sash windows. 2 modern doorways. (1) The Chequers. Gables to left and to right, both with cusped bargeboards; the left gable larger and richer. (2) 1732 HIGH STREET (West Side) No 124 TQ 5946 NW 3/24 8.5.50 II* GV (TQ 59054659 - 0.S. 1:2500 1969) 2. Another good example of a restored C15 timber-framed house. 4 storeys, 2 windows. First and second floors overhang on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets but the ground floor has been underbuilt and now consists of a modern shop front. Wide curved braces curving outwards on first and second floors with small 4-light oriel windows not apparently original. The attic floor has 2 gables, each with curved braces arranged in the opposite pattern to those below, the ends meeting and forming a V upside down. Each gable has 2 very small casement windows, separated in each case by an upright timber. (1-2) Cobley's, Tonbridge, a fine large 15th century half-timbered house. Obviously planned for a cramped site in a street. Two three-storeyed gables, with symmetrical curved braces at two levels. The roof arrangement is most unusual inside: tiebeams, carrying crown posts, run the depth of each gable, and not across the width of them. (3)


<1> DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge U.D. Kent. Jan. 1972 17 (OS Card Reference). SKE40416.

<2> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 573 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37919.

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1> OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge U.D. Kent. Jan. 1972 17.
  • <2>XY Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #36709 house, ]
  • <3> OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 573 (J Newman).

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Mar 3 2021 3:46PM