Description

WEST MALLING

TQ6857 HIGH STREET
1156-0/3/41 (West side)
01/08/52 Nos.36 AND 38
The Assembly Rooms
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
Connaugh House)

GV II*

Former Assembly Rooms, now offices to 1st floor and restaurant
on ground floor. c1750 on earlier foundations with good
Regency elevation of c1800 restored late C20. Front of wood
boarding incised to imitate masonry with shopfront. Side
elevation has a ground floor of stone rubble with brick
quoins, the 1st floor tile hung. Hipped tled roof. 2 storeys 1
window. Wooden parapet and deep modillion eaves cornice.
Central wooden Venetian window with intersecting glazing to
central light and pilasters. Ground floor has central curved
bow with 6 half-columns and intersecting tracery to the
fanlight. Right-hand side has half-glazed door. Right-hand
side has 6-panelled door. Basement has Diocletian window with
metal grille.
Interior has half-winder staircase with column newels and
square balusters. This building is almost identical to
Tenterden Town Hall which it predates (qv Ashford District,
Tenterden Parish).

Listing NGR: TQ6803357859

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546925

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)