Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 78 - GODDARDS GREEN FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1599. 15th c cloth hall with later additions

Location

Grid reference TQ 76709 35798 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NE
County KENT
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

Description from record TQ 73 NE 9:
(TQ 76713580) Goddard's Green (NAT) (1) Goddards Green Farmhouse (formerly listed as Goddard's Green), Angley Road Cranbrook. Grade II*. Cloth hall, now farmhouse. C15 with C16 extensions. Timber-framed on part red brick, part stone plinth. (2) [For full description see list] Goddard's Green has a fine long half-timbered frontage, partly overhanging in the centre, and with two balancing gables at the ends, each with a canted bay rising from ground to gable. There are closelyset uprights on the upper storey, 17th century casement windows, a modern imitation doorway and brick chimneybreasts each with three starshaped stacks. At the back the roof runs down in a tremendous sweep. A stone fireplace inside is dated 1634 and that would be a reasonable date for the gabled additions. (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK ANGLEY ROAD TQ 73 NE (north side) 3/3 Goddards Green Farmhouse 9.6.52 (formerly listed as Goddard's Green) - II*
Cloth hall, now farmhouse. C15 with C16 extensions. Timber-framed on part red brick, part stone plinth. Plain tiled roofs with jettied return gables to left and right; C15 wing to rear at left and deep C18 catslide. Cloth hall type plan. 2 storeys and attics with garrets in gables; 2 hipped dormers in centre. Jetty over ground floor, perhaps partially underbuilt to left. Irregular 7-window first floor and 5-window ground floor with 2-storey shallow bays under jetties in gable ends. Mixture of square and diamond lattice wood-framed casements. Boarded and ribbed door to right of centre window jetty with Tudor-arched moulded surround. Interior: Substantial frame survives. Moulded service doorways to screens passage as well as rear doorway of hall cross-passage. Large wood-framed transom and mullion window survives to rear of hall, to right of fireplace. 3-light open square well staircase to rear of hall with rather bulbous columnar turned balusters and octagonal ball finials to newels, all probably circa 1640. Listing NGR: TQ7677835808 (4)

Jettied timber framed house built about 1500 or even the early 16th century, altered in the mid 16th century and altered in 1634. (5)

HIStoric England archive material: BF040522 GODDARDS GREEN FARMHOUSE, CRANBROOK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/223 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Goddard's Green, Cranbrook


<1> OS 1:2500 1970 (OS Card Reference). SKE48212.

<2> DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 1 (OS Card Reference). SKE41213.

<3> Bldgs of Eng (Ed N Pevsner) W Kent and the Weald 1980 247-8 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37696.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<5> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <1> OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1970.
  • <2> OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 1.
  • <3> OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng (Ed N Pevsner) W Kent and the Weald 1980 247-8 (J Newman).
  • <4>XY Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #36872 House, ]
  • <5> Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.

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  • Non-Intrusive Event: Medieval Houses Of Kent: Architectural Survey (EKE20338)

Record last edited

Oct 31 2024 12:48PM