Listed Building record TQ 73 SE 174 - THE VICTORIAM HALL AND RAILED FORECOURT

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1875 to 1875

Location

Grid reference TQ 7611 3054 (point)
Map sheet TQ73SE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish HAWKHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (south side)
17/424 The Victorian Hall and railed forecourt GV II Village hall. 1875 by Alfred Williams, architect. Red brick with some tile hang- ing and plain tiled roof. Single storeyed hall with 2-storeyed service end. String course and buttresses to large gabled roof with apsidal outshot to left, 2 gabled semi-dormers to centre and canted 2-storey bay to right with bargeboard and pendant, and stack at end right with moulded and arcaded pair of flues. Mullioned and transomed windows to semi-dormers and bay (first floor only), the latter with side windows. Gabled porches with mullioned fanlights to left and to right with moulded depressed-arched doorways, and panelled doors within. Terracotta plaque to left of right-hand porch inscribed: Lecture Hall. Left return gable with pigeon-holes. Right return (and portion of right end of front elevation) tile hung, with terracotta plaque on chimneystack inscribed: 18 HM 75. Irregular rear elevation. Railed forecourt, with low brick wall and simple iron rails, the principals bifurcated with knibbed scrolls. See BOE, Kent, I, 1980, 317.
Listing NGR: TQ7610330541


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