Description

CRANBROOK HIGH STREET
TQ 7735 NW
(south side)
11/156
- Webster House and
railings to north
GV II

House. Early C18 block with alterations and additions of 1875-76 by Richard
Norman Shaw for Thomas Webster, RA, in front of C17 building. Red brick with
orange dressings. Broken moulded brick cornice over ground floor and contin-
uous bands over first floor and over second floor under brick-caped parapet.
Roof concealed by parapet. Tall brick stack to rear. 3 storeys. Regular 5
bay front, with sashes without glazing bars in segment head surrounds on first
and second floors. 2 canted C19 bays on ground floor flanking panelled door
with fluted Doric pilaster surround carrying full Doric entablature with trig-
lyphs and metopes containing paterae. Spearhead railings, four foot higher
on red brick plinth around three sides of front enclosure with central gateway.

Listing NGR: TQ7734635941

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26640074

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)