Latitude: 51.0968 / 51°5'48"N
Longitude: 0.5361 / 0°32'10"E
OS Eastings: 577676
OS Northings: 136119
OS Grid: TQ776361
Mapcode National: GBR PTC.4CW
Mapcode Global: FRA D607.2PG
Plus Code: 9F323GWP+PC
Entry Name: Vestry Hall
Listing Date: 19 May 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1336910
English Heritage Legacy ID: 169072
ID on this website: 101336910
Location: Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN17
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
Built-Up Area: Cranbrook
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Hall
CRANBROOK STONE STREET
TQ 7736 SE
(north east side)
10/219
- Vestry Hall
GV II
Vestry hall and cottage to rear. 1859 in a neo-Tudor style. Grey and red
brick chequer with stone window dressings. Wooden eaves cornice to plain
tiled roofs. 3-storey octagonal tower with octagonal cap and decorative
finial to right. 2 storey section to left with half-timbered gable with
bargeboards above wide octagonal oriel on first floor and wide carriage
entrance on ground floor with flanking subsidiary entrances. Cross windows
to front on ground floor and first floors of tower with flanking single-light
windows and shallower windows on 2nd from above shallow parapet step. Tudor-
arched doorway to left on room with ribbed door. LEFT RETURN FRONT: Angled
corner to left with hipped roof above and large transomed and mullioned window
on first floor. Segment-headed window on ground floor with two on left return
front. 3 large transom and mullion windows to left with doorway below central
window, all flanked by very shallow buttresses which break back from the
wall plane and merge into plinth and wall under gable, rather like flayed
skin. COTTAGE TO LEFT OF LEFT RETURN FRONT: Half timbered return gable to
right with mullioned windows on 1st and ground floors. Tile-hung jetty to
left with two windows on first floor and boarded and ribbed door below.
Listing NGR: TQ7768636120
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