Description

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

External Links

• Wikidata Q26368526

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)