Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 226 - BANGHAM'S ELECTRICAL SHOP

Summary

Cloth Hall dating to 1467 with later additions. Now a shop. A Cloth Hall was a large building where merchants could show their wares and conduct business.

Location

Grid reference TQ 7753 3605 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK HIGH STREET TQ 7736 SW & TQ 7736 SE (north side) 9/184 & 10/184 Vegetare, Jeneleen Hair- 20.6.67 dressers & Bangham's Electrical Shop (formerly listed as Milestone House and No 14 Milestone Shop) GV II*
Cloth hall, now shop. Late C15, floored in later C16, and clad in C19. Timber framed and clad in weatherboarding to left and tile hung to right. Plain tiled hipped roof, with large return gabled wing to right with bargeboards, jettied over ground floor, and smaller jettied gable to return wing to left. Tall brick stack to rear left. 2 storeys with attic only in gable to left. 4 win- dow first floor with single window to left. 4 windows first floor with single window to left on ground floor. 2 storey hexagonal bay to left. C19 wood framed casements. Shop front to right with glazed door to left. Small shop front to right of centre with glazed door to right. Large shop front to left of centre with glazed door to right. Interior: Very heavily moulded beamed and panelled ceiling over ground floor of former hall. Very heavy frame of large scantling. Roof with collars but collar purlin over hall removed. Side purlins.
Listing NGR: TQ7752636061


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

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Record last edited

Sep 16 2008 3:13AM