Description

EDENBRIDGE EDENBRIDGE
1.
5280
High Street
(East Side)
No 69
(Taylour House)
TQ 4446 12/412 10.9.54.
II*
2.
C15 timber framed house much altered externally. Now front of 2 tall storeys, 2
windows. Double span building has old tiled roofs hipped at left, C17 chimney stack
of 3 linked shafts on ridge. Tile hung 1st floor, painted brick ground floor,
rendered plinth. 1st floor modern mullioned and transomed windows with diamond
leading. At back exposed framing, partly restored, and plaster filling.
Inside much visible timber with moulded beams and old doors and frames. Upstairs
room has 2 well-preserved painted walls of early C17, one with scrolls of foliage
another with scene of Judith and Holopernes and arms of James I. Also early C17
staircase with flat, urn-shaped balusters. Arms in spandrel over doorway are
of Sir William Taylour, Lord Mayor of London in 1469, whose house this was.

Listing NGR: TQ4440346112

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545452

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)