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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 73 NE 221
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:HILL HOUSE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1899. 15th c cloth hall with later additions

Grid Reference:TQ 77861 35906
Map Sheet:TQ73NE
Parish:CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Monument Types

  • CLOTH HALL (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1084833: HILL HOUSE

Full description

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Description from record TQ 73 NE 16 :
(TQ 77863590) Hill House (NAT) (1) Hill House, The Hill, Cranbrook. Grade II*. Cloth hall, now house. C15 with C16 extensions, later C17 alterations and C18 and C19 cladding. Timber framed. (2) [For full description see list]. Hill House provides a surprise, as among a sea of 19th century tile- hanging it has a large sumptuous early 18th century doorcase with excellently carved Corinthian capitals and a froth of foliage within the broken segmental pediment. (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK THE HILL TQ 7735 NE (south west side) 12/201 Hill House 9.6.52 GV II*
Cloth hall, now house. C15 with C16 extensions, later C17 alterations and C18 and C19 cladding. Timber framed on painted brick plinth and decorative tile hung to front and sides with timber frame exposed with plaster infilling and close studding on two large wings to rear. Wooden modillion eaves cornice to plain tiled half hipped roof to front. Gabled roofs to rear. Brick ridge stack to left of centre and end stack to right. 2 storeys. Regular 5 window front with 3 central windows more closely spaced together. Glazing bar sashes, the outer ground floor ones tripartite. Central panelled door up 4 steps with fluted Corinthian pilasters supporting segmental pediment filled with heavily carved scroll work and floral decoration. Listing NGR: TQ7786235900 (4)


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

<2> DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19 May 1986 71 (OS Card Reference). SKE41212.

<3> Bldgs of Eng (Ed N Pevsner) W Kent and the Weald 1980 246 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37694.

<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) 19 May 1986 71.
<3>OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng (Ed N Pevsner) W Kent and the Weald 1980 246 (J Newman).
<4>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #37183 House, ]