Listing Text

TQ 7444
5/70

MARDEN,
HIGH STREET (north-east side),
National Westminster Bank, Bank House, Bridgelands Cottage and Greenheys Cottage

(Formerly listed as The National Provincial Bank Ltd)

23.5.67

GV II

House, now house row and bank. C15, with later alterations and with late C18 or early C19 facade. Timber framed. Left end of ground floor red brick in Flemish bond, rest red and grey brick in Flemish bond. First floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Possibly a Wealden. Open hall, with storeyed bay to right end and probably to left. 2 storeys. Brick plinth towards centre, stone plinth to right. Steeply-pitched roof, gabled to left, hipped to right. Brick ridge stack towards left end. Irregular fenestration of 4 three-light casements, one to left and three to right of stack. Segmental heads to three right ground-floor windows. Plain frieze to Bank window. Ribbed door to Bank towards left end; door with flush panels, two top lights, segmental head and flat bracketed hood to Bank House towards centre, with blocked doorway adjacent to right. Similar panelled door with flat bracketed hood to Bridgelands, between first and second windows from right, and half-glazed door to Greenheys Cottage in short gabled timber-framed rear wing to right. Interior: only partly inspected. Moulded and brattished right end-of-hall beam. Four-centred arched doorhead with hollow spandrels to rear wall of hall. Axial beam and broad close-set joists to right end bay. Crown-post roof.

Listing NGR: TQ7469444534