Listed Building record TQ 54 NE 300 - 124 HIGH STREET
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 59054 46595 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ54NE |
Civil Parish | TONBRIDGE, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
District | TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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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> SKE40416 OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge U.D. Kent. Jan. 1972 17.
- <2>XY SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #36709 house, ]
- <3> SKE37919 OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 573 (J Newman).
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Record last edited
Mar 3 2021 3:46PM