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HORSMONDEN GOUDHURST ROAD
TQ 73 NW
(south side)
4/30 Stable block to east of
20.10.54 Broadford
GV II*

Stable block, now house. Circa 1690, converted mid and late C20. Red and blue
chequered brick and sandstone with plain tiled roof. Two storeys on sandstone
plinth with stone plat band and quoins and with moulded wooden eaves cornice to
hipped roof with stacks to rear left and rear right. Projecting centre piece with
steep pediment containing a sundial. Nine bay frontage with eight 2 light leaded
casements and centre 3 lighter, with eight leaded cross windows on ground floor
(four of which are in former stable doorways), with central glazed doors and side
lights replacing coach doors in late C20 columned porch. Rear elevations of
sandstone only with details carried across. Converted in 2 stages, the earlier
sympathetic conversion of upper floor (1947) described by C. Hussey, Country Life,
vol. CIV, 1948.

Listing NGR: TQ7130639689