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Chancel House and Church House

A Grade II Listed Building in Hadlow, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2236 / 51°13'25"N

Longitude: 0.3388 / 0°20'19"E

OS Eastings: 563415

OS Northings: 149757

OS Grid: TQ634497

Mapcode National: GBR NQ7.8GD

Mapcode Global: VHHQ1.THHT

Plus Code: 9F3268FQ+CG

Entry Name: Chancel House and Church House

Listing Date: 20 October 1954

Last Amended: 19 February 1990

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1236882

English Heritage Legacy ID: 179458

ID on this website: 101236882

Location: Hadlow, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, TN11

County: Kent

District: Tonbridge and Malling

Civil Parish: Hadlow

Built-Up Area: Hadlow

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Hadlow

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description


TQ 63 49
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HADLOW
CHURCH STREET (west side)
Chancel House and Church House

(Formerly listed as Church House and Police House)

20.10.54

GV
II
Pair of houses. Early C18 with some C19 and C20 modernisation. The ground floor level is Flemish bond brick, the first floor is timber-framed and hung with peg-tile on the end walls and mathematical tiles on the front; brick stacks and chimney shafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: pair of contemporary mirror-plan cottages facing east, Chancel House to left (south) and Church House to right. Each has two principal rooms, parlour in the middle and dining room at the end. Direct entry through small internal porch into the parlour which is heated by a rear lateral stack. Stairs rise alongside this stack. Dining rooms have gable-end stacks. Integral rear outshots include the services. The kitchen share an axial stack in the party wall. Both are two storeys with attics and lean-to single-storey outshots.

Exterior: overall symmetrical five window front, all late C19 horned four-pane sashes, probably contemporary with the mathematical tiles. Paired front doorways. Both frames are early C18, so to is the fielded panel door to left (Chancel House) and the shared flat-roofed hood with moulded edges. Original timber eaves cornice including modillion brackets. Mansard roof is sprocketted to the front and to rear continues down over the service outshots. It is gable ended. Two front flat-roofed dormers to the attics. These and the windows in each gable end are casements; the right end one (Church Cottage) includes two originals containing diamond panes of leaded glass.

Interior: only Chancel House was inspected but Church House should be similar. Both front rooms have exposed axial beams, chamfered with runout stops. The curving back of the original brick fireplace in the parlour behind a replacement chimneypiece. The joinery detail is plain. Original roof structure is mostly plastered but there are staggered butt purlins between the trusses.

This is a particularly good pair of modest early C18 houses amongst a good group of listed buildings close by the Church of St Mary (q.v.).


Listing NGR: TQ6341549757

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