Listed Building record TQ 53 NW 100 - STABLE APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH WEST OF MILL HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1932

Location

Grid reference TQ 5307 3756 (point)
Map sheet TQ53NW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish SPELDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 53 37 SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (east side), OLD GROOMBRIDGE 16/501 Stable approx 15m south west of Mill House
GV II
Stable. Probably C18 with early C20 addition. Coursed sandstone ashlar with brick addition. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: L-plan building. The C18 stable faces west south west, say west with C20 cartshed/garage built in front of its left end.
Exterior: The gable-ended cartshed/garage hides the left end. To right a doorway with a plain solid timber frame containing a plain old plank door. Directly above a similar loading hatch doorway rises from eaves level and has a gabled roof. At the right end a C20 pivoting casement window. Main roof is gable-ended.
Interior: Plain carpentry detail and a 3-bay roof of tie-beam trusses with staggered butt purlins.
This old stable is one of the very important group of related buildings which make up the estate village of Old Groombridge.
Listing NGR: TQ5307637574


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM