Listed Building record TQ 74 SW 116 - MANCHESTER HOUSE WITH THE POST OFFICE AND HEATH STORES

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1899

Location

Grid reference TQ 7000 4052 (point)
Map sheet TQ74SW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish HORSMONDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HORSMONDEN THE HEATH TQ 6840-6940 & 7040-7140 (south side) 6 & 7/119 Manchester House with The Post office and Heath Stores GV II
House and shop pair. C18, altered and extended late C19. Red and blue chequered brick to ground floor and tile hung first floor, extended with red brick. Plain tiled roof. Main block of 2 storeys and attic with ground floor built out with pentice roof, and with half-hipped roof with stacks to rear left and to centre and with 2 hipped dormers. Three top-hung C20 casements on first floor and multi-paned shop windows on ground floor with central boarded door. Single storey extension to right (Heath Stores) with stack at end right. Projecting C19 plate glass shop front on ground floor with doubled half-glazed doors to centre left. Both blocks with catslide outshots to rear, that to the Post Office particularly notable.
Listing NGR: TQ7001340513


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

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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM