Listed Building record TQ 73 NW 26 - BARN AND STABLE ABOUT 20 METRES NORTH OF GATEHOUSE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1599

Location

Grid reference TQ 7055 3598 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish GOUDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
GOUDHURST RISEDEN LANE TQ 73 NW (east side)
5/258 Barn and stable about 20 metres north of Gatehouse GV II* Barn and stable/outhouse. C15 and C16. Timber framed and weather boarded, in part on sandstone base, with plain tiled roofs. North (entrance) elevation. Barn to right, with half hipped roof and open lean-to outshot across front, with central gable mid-storey. Two storey half hipped stable block to left, with wooden casement on 1st floor and 3 on ground floor with central recessed half door. External stair to left return to upper floor, boarded door. Carriage doors and casements to rear elevation of barn. Interior: the barn is a fine 4 bay structure with arched braced tie beams and crown posts with straight braces to collars and the beams. The 2 storey building adjacent, with stabling in ground floor and pigeon loft in 1st floor, with 3 bay clasped purlin and wind- brace roof, with eccentric bracing, of good quality, the whole heavily soot blackened; the building could have been an early cast, or external kitchen (it is at lower end of Gatehouse) or brewhouse etc.
Listing NGR: TQ7055135953


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