Description

GOUDHURST THE PLAIN
TQ 7237-7337 (south side)

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The Village Hall
GV II
Village hall. 1903. 'Mr Tucas' Architect. Red brick and tile hung on 1st
floor with plain tiled roof. Single storey main hall, with 2 storey and attic
service ends, with moulded modillion eaves cornice to hipped roof with 2 hipped
dormers with central octagonal tile hung and wooden cupola with tented lead roof
stack projecting at end left, with outshot. Three large central mullioned and
transomed windows joined at the top by side lights, with 2 light casements to
left and to right on ground floor, and boarded door to centre right. Main entry
in left return by doubled 2 panel doors with large flat hood suspended from iron
ties, with 3 light casements either side. Large 2 storey deeply projecting bay
to rear, with fully glazed canted end. Interior: the original full height hall
with half-timbered partitions has been partly ceiled in and altered. Built by
local firm Davis and Leaney (responsible for much of the high quality early C20
work in and around Goudhurst).

Listing NGR: TQ7220237651

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26368442

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)