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The Crescent

A Grade II Listed Building in Brenchley, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1516 / 51°9'5"N

Longitude: 0.3911 / 0°23'28"E

OS Eastings: 567327

OS Northings: 141863

OS Grid: TQ673418

Mapcode National: GBR NR2.PPP

Mapcode Global: VHJMX.QBM1

Plus Code: 9F32592R+JC

Entry Name: The Crescent

Listing Date: 24 August 1990

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1249092

English Heritage Legacy ID: 430931

ID on this website: 101249092

Location: Market Heath, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN12

County: Kent

District: Tunbridge Wells

Civil Parish: Brenchley

Built-Up Area: Brenchley

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Brenchley All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description


TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, MARKET HEATH

15/49 The Crescent

II

Row of 4 small houses. Early C19 with late C19/early C20 bay windows.
Flemish bond brick with blue headers to the ground floor, first floor tile-
hung; slate roof; brick stacks.

Plan: The range faces approximately south and fronts the road. The front
block is narrow and single depth, the rooms heated from axial stacks; heated
rear wings at right angles.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front, curving slightly inwards
towards the centre of the range. Roof hipped at left end, gabled at right
end. Stacks with brick shafts with corbelled brick cornices. The left hand
house is entered on the left return. The adjacent house to the right has a
C19 panelled front door to right of centre with a gabled porch on posts. The
centre house has a half-glazed front door to the left; the right hand house
has a panelled C19 front door with a late porch on brackets. 5 first floor 4-
pane plate glass sash windows; 4 ground floor canted bay windows with plate
glass 4-pane sashes in the centre, 2-pane in the outer lights.

Interior: Not inspected.

The Crescent is shown in a late C19 photograph published in A Victorian
Pictorial Record of Brenchlev and Matfield (n.d., c.1988). The bay windows
have replaced sashes shown in this photograph.


Listing NGR: TQ6732741863

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