Latitude: 51.1138 / 51°6'49"N
Longitude: 0.4603 / 0°27'36"E
OS Eastings: 572302
OS Northings: 137819
OS Grid: TQ723378
Mapcode National: GBR PT2.362
Mapcode Global: VHJN4.X8PJ
Plus Code: 9F324F76+G4
Entry Name: Goudhurst House and Newsagent's Shop
Listing Date: 22 June 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1084672
English Heritage Legacy ID: 169537
ID on this website: 101084672
Location: Goudhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN17
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Goudhurst
Built-Up Area: Goudhurst
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Building
GOUDHURST HIGH STREET
TQ 7237-7337 (north side)
15/187
Goudhurst House and
Newsagent's shop
GV II
House and Newsagent's shop. C18. Timber framed and clad with tile hanging, with
red brick and mathematical tile to return elevations. Plain tiled roof. Two
storeys and attic on plinth with parapet to gambrel roof, with 2 flat roofed
dormers and stacks to rear left and to rear right, and projecting and truncated at
end right. Originally regular fenestration, with 3 light mullioned and transomed
wooden casements to left and right and 2-light window to centre on 1st floor.
Three light casement to left on ground floor, and late C19 plate glass shop front
to right, with canted bays and doubled half-glazed doors. Central half-glazed
door with traceried semicircular fanlight and pediment-shaped hood. Two storey
hipped rear wing. Sometime Poor House, run by "General" George Street, who had
organised the successful resistance to the attack on Goudhurst by the Hawkhurst
Smuggling Gang in 1747.
Listing NGR: TQ7229637828
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