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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26368526

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  For the Record
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey