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Ashleigh Hundred House the Corner House

A Grade II Listed Building in Cranbrook, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.0947 / 51°5'40"N

Longitude: 0.5393 / 0°32'21"E

OS Eastings: 577904

OS Northings: 135890

OS Grid: TQ779358

Mapcode National: GBR PTC.C4Z

Mapcode Global: FRA D607.9WW

Plus Code: 9F323GVQ+VP

Entry Name: Ashleigh Hundred House the Corner House

Listing Date: 20 June 1967

Last Amended: 19 May 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1084832

English Heritage Legacy ID: 169048

ID on this website: 101084832

Location: Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN17

County: Kent

District: Tunbridge Wells

Civil Parish: Cranbrook & Sissinghurst

Built-Up Area: Cranbrook

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


CRANBROOK THE HILL
TQ 7735 NE
(south west side)
12/199
Hundred House, Ashleigh
20.6.67 and The Corner House
(formerly listed as Myrtle
Cottage, Ashleigh and the
Corner House)
GV II

Cloth hall, now 3 houses. Late C15, clad in C18. Timber framed and weather-
boarded on brick plinth. Plain tiled roof, with tall brick stack behind ridge
to right and slope stack at extreme right. Projecting gabled wings at both
ends of front, both probably underbuilt jetties, with wavy-edged bargeboards
on right gable. 2 storeys and garrets in gables. 1 window on 2nd floor in
each gable, 6 on first floor and 5 on ground floor, all slightly irregular,
with large shop type window to extreme right, 2 wooden cross-windows on first
floor under right hand gable And single casement above. Wide glazing bar
sashes elsewhere. Boarded door to right of extreme left hand window and
another to left of right hand projection, with glazed door to left of extreme
right hand window. Entrance also in left hand end. Interior: Substantial
timber frame with very heavily jowled posts. Crown post collar purlin roof
over centre and similar roof over solar (in Hundred House to right). 2 door-
ways survive in Hundred House.


Listing NGR: TQ7790435890

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