Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 293 - RAMMELLS HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1567 to 1944

Location

Grid reference TQ 7793 3587 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK BAKER'S CROSS, (WEST TQ 7735 NE SIDE)
12/18 Rammells House
GV II
House, now school boarding house for Cranbrook School. Later C16 or early C17 with front block added in 1882-83 by Ernest Newton and W W Nere, extended circa 1939. Front block: Red brick, over ground floor rendered between red brick pilaster-strips. Moulded wooden eaves cornice to plain tiled roof with very tall slightly projecting end stacks and similar stack off-centre to right. Three storeys; 2 window front, wooden casements to left, with wide 3-storey octagonal bay to right. Continuous windows round all sides with lattice glazing over glazing bar casements on both first and second floors. Deep pentice tiled hood over ground floor with similar octagonal bay to left as well as that to right, flanking central arched doorway with side-lights, half-glazed door and low arched transom light. Rear: Half-hipped 2½-storey timber-framed and weather-boarded wing to rear, the original later C16 or early C17 house. Interior: Stair survives, 2 flight return with turned bulbous balusters. Various semi-inglenook and decorated fire surrounds.
Listing NGR: TQ7794035868


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