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Latitude: 51.1171 / 51°7'1"N
Longitude: 0.1855 / 0°11'7"E
OS Eastings: 553060
OS Northings: 137579
OS Grid: TQ530375
Mapcode National: GBR MPV.ZN1
Mapcode Global: VHHQK.56D0
Plus Code: 9F32458P+R5
Entry Name: Mill House
Listing Date: 24 August 1990
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1240668
English Heritage Legacy ID: 439025
ID on this website: 101240668
Location: Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Speldhurst
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Speldhurst St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: House
TQ 53 3 SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (east side),
OLD GROOMBRIDGE
16/499 Mill House
GV II*
Former miller's house. Probably late C17 with some minor later alterations.
Timber-framed. Ground floor is underbuilt with English bond red brick with a
large number of burnt headers giving a banded effect in places. Frame above
hung with peg-tile. Brick stack and chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: 2-room lobby entrance plan house facing north north west, say north.
Central axial stack serving slightly larger left (east) room. Stair rises to
rear of stack in probably secondary 2-storey outshots. The Mill (q.v.)
adjoins to left and until the C20 the mill race ran by the back of the house.
2 storeys with attics in roofspace of main block.
Exterior: Nearly symmetrical 3-window front of old casements containing
diamond panes of leaded glass (particularly small panes in the hip-roofed
dormers). Central front doorway contains a plain plank door under a shallow
flat-roofed hood. Roof is half-hipped both ends. Rear elevation more recent
but 3-window elevation in same style with half dormers.
Interior: Only limited internal inspection was available at the time of this
survey. Main ground floor room has a large brick fireplace with an oak
lintel. This lintel and the crossbeam are chamfered with scroll stops.
Mill House is one of the very important group of listed buildings in Old
Groombridge.
Listing NGR: TQ5306037579
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