Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 241 - THE OLD CLOTH HALL

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK COURSEHORN LANE TQ 73 NE (west side) 3/82 The Old Cloth Hall 9.6.52 - II*
Cloth hall, now house. C15, floored in C16 with subsidiary C17 wing with some C18 cladding; restored and extended in early C20. Timber framed and clad in red brick on ground floor exposed with some close studding and curved braces on first floor. North side tile hung. Plain tiled roofs. Tall brick stack to rear of left hand wing on ridge. Stack off-ridge to front to right. L-plan with earlier wing to left. 2 storeys and attics. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows on first floor and 2 on ground floor of wing to left and 4 windows on both floors of end of projecting wing to right. Projecting stair bay on left wing with short catslide roof. Wide and shallow square bay with small pentice roof at end of left hand wing. 2 storey hipped roofed porch to right in angle with right wing. Tudor-arched entrance with moulded wooden surround and boarded and ribbed door. Interior: substantial timber frame with jowled posts. Roof of possible crown post type with only part open showing collars removed. Large kitchen fireplace with very wide chamfered bressummer.
Listing NGR: TQ7910235728 (5)

Description from record TQ 73 NE 11 :
(TQ 79103573) Old Cloth Hall (NAT) (1) The Old Cloth Hall, Coursehorn Lane, Cranbrook. Grade II*. Cloth Hall, now house. C15, floored in C16 with subsidiary C17 wing with some C18 cladding; restored and extended in early C20. Timber framed.(2) [For full description see list]. Old Cloth Hall is a U-shaped building, one third modern. It is half- timbered but with the lower storey rebuilt in brick. (3)

Building survey undertaken by Cantervury Archaeological Trust in 2011. Most of the internal features date to restoration works undertaken in the 1930s, when most of the original features were removed. (4)

Historic England archive material: BF040521 THE OLD CLOTH HALL, 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.

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

<2> DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 29 (OS Card Reference). SKE41215.

<3> Bldgs of Eng (Ed N Pevsner) W Kent and The Weald 1980 248 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37697.

<4> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2011, The Old Cloth Hall, Coursehorn Lane, Cranbrook, Kent: An archaeological appraisal (Unpublished document). SKE17082.

<5> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.