Listed Building record TQ 73 NW 132 - CLAYHILL COTTAGES, Clayhill, Goudhurst
Summary
Location
| Grid reference | TQ 7207 3756 (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                     CLAYHILL TQ 7237-7337          (south east side)
15/142                                                      Clayhill Cottages GV                                                   II House, now housepair.  C16.  Timber-framed and tile hung, part of ground floor red brick and rendered.  Plain tiled roof.  Hall house origin with cross-wing.  Two storeys and attic; with projecting jettied wing to left, with half-hipped roof, main roof hipped with gablet.  Stacks to left, to rear left and to centre right. Two flat-roofed dormers, and 3-light casement to cross-wing garret.  Four 3-light leaded casements on 1st floor, and 4 irregular wooden and metal casements on ground floor.  Boarded doors to left, to centre and with gabled hood to centre right.  The cross-wing is a substantial build in its own right, returned to left return with large hipped roof.  Sometime village workhouse.
Listing NGR: TQ7207537569
The building was purchased in 1788 as a replacement for the original Parish Poorhouse' along with Clay Hill  and  a cottage in Curtisden Green and Piles Heath.
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Peter Higginbotham, 2018, http://www.workhouses.org.uk (Website). SKE51754.
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Record last edited
Jan 17 2019 1:06PM