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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 73 NE 222 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | ASHLEIGH |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1799
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7790 3589 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ73NE |
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| Parish: | CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1467 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1084832: ASHLEIGH AND HUNDRED HOUSE AND THE CORNER HOUSE |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK THE HILL TQ 7735 NE (south west side) 12/199 Hundred House, Ashleigh 20.6.67 and The Corner House (formerly listed as Myrtle Cottage, Ashleigh and the Corner House) GV II
Cloth hall, now 3 houses. Late C15, clad in C18. Timber framed and weather- boarded on brick plinth. Plain tiled roof, with tall brick stack behind ridge to right and slope stack at extreme right. Projecting gabled wings at both ends of front, both probably underbuilt jetties, with wavy-edged bargeboards on right gable. 2 storeys and garrets in gables. 1 window on 2nd floor in each gable, 6 on first floor and 5 on ground floor, all slightly irregular, with large shop type window to extreme right, 2 wooden cross-windows on first floor under right hand gable And single casement above. Wide glazing bar sashes elsewhere. Boarded door to right of extreme left hand window and another to left of right hand projection, with glazed door to left of extreme right hand window. Entrance also in left hand end. Interior: Substantial timber frame with very heavily jowled posts. Crown post collar purlin roof over centre and similar roof over solar (in Hundred House to right). 2 door- ways survive in Hundred House.
Listing NGR: TQ7790435890 (1)
Ashleigh is a formerly open 2-bay hall house. The Hundred House is a 5-bay wing probably originally jettied at the front and is of mid 16th century date. The Corner House is a 2-bay cross wing of the 17th cenury. (2)
HIStoric England archive material: BF040117 ASHLEIGH, HUNDRED HOUSE, CORNER HOUSE, CRANBROOK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent. |
