Listed Building record TQ 53 NE 153 - Nos 1 to 17 Calverley Park crescent

Summary

Listed building. Main construction periods 1828 to 1835

Location

Grid reference TQ 5875 3945 (point)
Map sheet TQ53NE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CALVERLEY PARK CRESCENT 1. 1746 Nos 1 to 3 (consec) No 3A Nos 4 and 4A Nos 5 to 7 (consec) No 7A Nos 8 and 9 No 9A Nos 10 and 11 No 11A Nos 12 and 13 No 13A Nos 14 to 17 (consec) TQ 5839 SE 7/80 24.11.66 II GV 2. This crescent was originally called Calverley Promenade. It was built in 1828-1835 and was designed as shops with lodging houses above, but they later became houses. No 1 was the bath-house, and in the centre house was a reading room with a billiard room over. Decimus Burton Architect. Built of local Tunbridge Wells stone. The ground floor of the garden front is stuccoed. 3 storeys and basement cornice and parapet. 2 sashes to each with most glazing bars intact. French windows on the 1st floor. On the 1st floor is a continuous stuccoed balcony supported on a slender iron colonnade based on a raised platform with an iron railing above the colonnade. The end houses (Nos 1 and 17) and the 3 centre houses (Nos 8, 9 and 10) project slightly and have a cornice below the top floor. The end houses also have curved bays at the sides. Nos 1 to 17 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ5875239458


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

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Record last edited

May 7 2010 1:36PM