TQ 65 NE 71 - Dumb Clock Row, East Malling - Historic Environment Record

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Monument record TQ 65 NE 71 - Dumb Clock Row, East Malling

Summary

In about 1780 this row of 8 tenements was built as an architectural composition. It originally included a clock on the central projecting gable.The timber and weatherboarded tenements were built as two storey dwellings, with living room and scullery downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs. They are no longer in existence.

Location

Grid reference	TQ 69645 57450 (point) Centred
Map sheet	TQ65NE
County	KENT
District	TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish	EAST MALLING AND LARKFIELD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

TENEMENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full Description

TQ 6780 5756 Site of Dumb Clock Row. Eight tenements of timber and weatherboarding two storeys built c1780 each tenement with living room and scullery and two bedrooms designed as architectural composition. (1) 13/38 No 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Dumb Clock Row. Grade 2 Early 19thC. Attractive row of painted cottages, 2 storeys 6.3.6 sash window facade, the centre slightly projecting with pedimented gable. The circular plastered panel in the gable originally contained clock. 7 panelled doors with flat bracketted hoods, the centre door having pilastered frame (2) Orig located at TQ 704 581. Correctly located by source (3)

Historic England archive material: BF031678 DUMB CLOCK ROW, EAST MALLING AND LARKFIELD

<1> <Monuments threatened or destroyed: a select list 1956-62 44 RCHM (OS Card Reference). SKE32740.

<2> WHLG 2227/11/a Malling RD Kent May 1950 28 (OS Card Reference). SKE51328.

<3> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Oxford Arch Unit Land to N of Bradbourne House E Malling 1995 p 3 (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

Sources/Archives (3)

<1> SKE32740 OS Card Reference:
<2> SKE51328 OS Card Reference: WHLG 2227/11/a Malling RD Kent May 1950 28.
<3>XY SKE6440 Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Oxford Arch Unit Land to N of Bradbourne House E Malling 1995 p 3. [Mapped feature: #76324 building, ]