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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 73 NE 44
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:The Cornerhouse Offices

Summary

A cloth-hall, originally dating from about 1400 but now converted into shops and The George Hotel.

Grid Reference:TQ 7765 3607
Map Sheet:TQ73NE
Parish:CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Monument Types

  • CLOTH HALL (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1380 AD to 1899 AD)
  • INN (INN, Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)
  • SHOP (SHOP, Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1075155: THE CORNERHOUSE OFFICES

Full description

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Description from record TQ 73 NE 18 :
(TQ 77653606) George Hotel (NAT) (1) John Hogbin, Estate Agents, printing at Cranbrook, The George Hotel and Anderson's Butchers, (Formerly listed as London Outfitters Ltd The George Hotel). Stone Street, Cranbrook. Grade II*. Cloth hall,now Inn and 3 shops. Circa 1400, altered in C16, extended in C17 and refronted to left in C19. Clad in C18. Timber-framed with red brick ground floor. (2) [For full description see list]. The structure of the tile hung George Hotel is 15th century, although it contains a late 17th century fireplace. (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 7736 SE CRANBROOK STONE STREET
(South West side)
1608/10/242
The George Hotel,
Anderson & Sons Butchers,
Lemon Blue Gift Shop,
09.06.1952 Oliver Fisher Estate Agents,
The Cornerhouse Offices,
And The Cornerhouse Flat
GV II*
Also listed under: HIGH STREET (South side)
Cloth hall, now Inn, shops, offices and flat. Circa 1400, altered in(16, extended in (17 and refronted to left 1n (19. Clad in (18. Timber-framed with red brick ground floor and decorative tile-hanging on first floor, except 2 brick bays at entrance left. Wooden eaves cornice to plain tiled half-hipped roof. Two tall brick stacks to left and low stack to rear to right of centre. Six dormers irregularly spaced, that to extreme left wider, and all hipped except that to extreme right. Two storeys and attics. Regular 11- window front, glazing bat sashes with open boxes. Double shop-front to left with tiled surround, inset off-centre doorway with glazed doorway and deep fascia-board above. (19 double bowed shop front to right, with central glazed door topped by oval transom-light and flanked to left by later (19 shopfront with central glazed door. In centre and to left 6 glazing bar sashes with panelled doors to right of left- hand most window and to left of 5th window from left. Balcony over this portion, under the 3rd to 8th windows, with cast iron decorative railings and plastered cove beneath. Interior: Room on first floor now subdivided, used until (19 for the Justices' Sessions. Two-flight timber staircase of circa 1670, with square newel posts, flat-topped rail and short bulbous turned balusters. Listing NGR: TQ7764736080 (4)


<1> OS 1:2500 1970 (OS Card Reference). SKE48212.

<2> DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 87 (OS Card Reference). SKE41218.

<3> Bldgs of Eng (Ed N Pevsner) W Kent and the Weald 1980 245 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37692.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1970.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 87.
<3>OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng (Ed N Pevsner) W Kent and the Weald 1980 245 (J Newman).
<4>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #36807 cloth hall, ]

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