Listed Building record TQ 53 NW 137 - 7 Bird-in-Hand Street

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1799 No 7 Bird-in-Hand Street: listed building Probable 18th century house with some 19th and 20th century modernisation.

Location

Grid reference TQ 5296 3773 (point) (2 map features)
Map sheet TQ53NW
County KENT
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish SPELDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 53 37 SPELDHURST BIRD-IN-HAND STREET, OLD GROOMBRIDGE 16/454 No 7 20.10.54
GV II*
Small house. Probably C18, maybe earlier origins, little C19 and C20 modernisation. Weatherboarded timber frame on coursed sandstone footings; brick stack (maybe on a sandstone base) and brick chimneyshaft; peg-tile roof.
Plan: House faces north east onto the street, it has a narrow site and 2-room plan gable-end onto the street. Larger front room with large lateral stack on the left side shared with No 6 (q.v.) adjoining that side.
2 storeys.with attics in the roofspace.
Exterior: Single window each floor. Ground and first floor windows are C20 casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass and the attic has a probably original 2-light casement containing diamond panes of old leaded glass (some tinged green). Front doorway to right contains a C19 plank door under a shallow flat hood on shaped timber brackets. Roof is tall and steeply pitched.
Interior: Only the ground floor was available for inspection at the time of this survey. Front room axial beam is chamfered with runout stops but the fireplace is blocked by a C20 grate. Rear room has plain axial joists. Some of the wall framing is exposed and is built of timbers of relatively slender scantling with straight braces.
No 7 may originally have been built with No 6 (q.v.) adjoining. It is one of a superlative group of listed buildings associated with Groombridge Place (q.v.) which make up Old Groombridge village.
Listing NGR: TQ5296637734 (1)

Description from record TQ 53 NW 23:
Small house. Probably C18, maybe earlier origins, little C19 and C20 modernisation (TQ 5295 3773 not named). Grade II*. (2)


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> DOE (HHR) District of Tunbridge Wells, kent (Bidborough et al) 24th Aug 1990 435 (OS Card Reference). SKE40534.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
  • <2> OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) District of Tunbridge Wells, kent (Bidborough et al) 24th Aug 1990 435.

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Record last edited

Jul 5 2024 3:16PM