Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 127 - ALPINE COTTAGES

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1680 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TQ 7931 3751 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK THE STREET, (SOUTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/258 Nos 1 and 2, Alpine 20.6.67 Cottages and Milkhouse Antique Shop (formerly listed as J B Bridgeland's Stones, Verdun House and Alpine Cottages, Sissinghurst ) GV II
Cottage row, with shop to right. Circa 1700, clad in C19, with C20 alterations. Timber-framed and clad in brick, painted to front, with tile-hanging on first floor and in gables of ends. Plain tiled half-hipped roof. Two tall off-centre brick ridge stacks and stack at left end. Three hipped dormers. Two storeys and attics. Irregular fenestration of 7 windows on first floor and 4 on ground floor with wide single storey projecting glazed shop front with flat roof to right. Boarded door to left in flat roofed glazed weather-porch, central panelled door with flat hood over and glazed door recessed in centre of shop front. Interior: Substantial frame visible. Queen post side-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TQ7931037511


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