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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1899. From 1725 -1788 it was the parish poor house.

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1899 AD)
• (Former Type) WORKHOUSE (Post Medieval - 1725 AD to 1790 AD (between))

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
GOUDHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7237-7337 (north side)
15/187 Goudhurst House and Newsagent's shop GV II House and Newsagent's shop. C18. Timber framed and clad with tile hanging, with red brick and mathematical tile to return elevations. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic on plinth with parapet to gambrel roof, with 2 flat roofed dormers and stacks to rear left and to rear right, and projecting and truncated at end right. Originally regular fenestration, with 3 light mullioned and transomed wooden casements to left and right and 2-light window to centre on 1st floor. Three light casement to left on ground floor, and late C19 plate glass shop front to right, with canted bays and doubled half-glazed doors. Central half-glazed door with traceried semicircular fanlight and pediment-shaped hood. Two storey hipped rear wing. Sometime Poor House, run by "General" George Street, who had organised the successful resistance to the attack on Goudhurst by the Hawkhurst Smuggling Gang in 1747.
Listing NGR: TQ7229637828

From 1725 -1788 it was the parish poor house.

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Kent Workhouses
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