Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 102 - WEBSTER HOUSE AND RAILINGS TO NORTH

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1600 to 1876

Location

Grid reference TQ 7734 3594 (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 HIGH STREET TQ 7735 NW (south side) 11/156 - Webster House and railings to north GV II
House. Early C18 block with alterations and additions of 1875-76 by Richard Norman Shaw for Thomas Webster, RA, in front of C17 building. Red brick with orange dressings. Broken moulded brick cornice over ground floor and contin- uous bands over first floor and over second floor under brick-caped parapet. Roof concealed by parapet. Tall brick stack to rear. 3 storeys. Regular 5 bay front, with sashes without glazing bars in segment head surrounds on first and second floors. 2 canted C19 bays on ground floor flanking panelled door with fluted Doric pilaster surround carrying full Doric entablature with trig- lyphs and metopes containing paterae. Spearhead railings, four foot higher on red brick plinth around three sides of front enclosure with central gateway.
Listing NGR: TQ7734635941


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

Apr 30 2015 11:59AM