Description

TQ 5946 NW TONBRIDGE HADLOW ROAD

3/10003 Numbers 4-8,
Blue Door

II

House, later two shops and now in single ownership. C17, refronted in early C19 when a rear range was added and with C20 ground floor windows and doors. Front range is original timberframed building refronted in brick, front painted, with tile-hanging to first floor south elevation and north gable. Tiled roof, half-hipped to south with central brick chimneystack. Two storeys and attics; 3 windows. Three gabled dormers with C19 casements. First floor has three 16-pane sashes. Ground floor has two C19 twenty-pane shopfronts and C20 doors in side elevations. C19 narrow range to rear is partly of brick, partly weatherboarded and partly tile-hung and has 2 early C19 leaded light casements on pintle hinges. Interior of front range has large sandstone back to back open fireplace. Timberframe with jowled posts, stop chamfers to spine beams and curved windbraces within butt purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TQ5941346779

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550681

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy