Listed Building record TQ 73 NW 116 - STABLE BLOCK TO EAST OF BROADFORD

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1670 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TQ 7126 3970 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish HORSMONDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HORSMONDEN GOUDHURST ROAD TQ 73 NW (south side) 4/30 Stable block to east of 20.10.54 Broadford GV II*
Stable block, now house. Circa 1690, converted mid and late C20. Red and blue chequered brick and sandstone with plain tiled roof. Two storeys on sandstone plinth with stone plat band and quoins and with moulded wooden eaves cornice to hipped roof with stacks to rear left and rear right. Projecting centre piece with steep pediment containing a sundial. Nine bay frontage with eight 2 light leaded casements and centre 3 lighter, with eight leaded cross windows on ground floor (four of which are in former stable doorways), with central glazed doors and side lights replacing coach doors in late C20 columned porch. Rear elevations of sandstone only with details carried across. Converted in 2 stages, the earlier sympathetic conversion of upper floor (1947) described by C. Hussey, Country Life, vol. CIV, 1948.
Listing NGR: TQ7130639689


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