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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 73 NE 241
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:THE OLD CLOTH HALL

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1932

Summary from record TQ 73 NE 11 :

15th c cloth hall with later additions

Grid Reference:TQ 79102 35728
Map Sheet:TQ73NE
Parish:CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 1932 AD)
  • CLOTH HALL (CLOTH HALL, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1084868: THE OLD CLOTH HALL

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK COURSEHORN LANE TQ 73 NE (west side) 3/82 The Old Cloth Hall 9.6.52 - II*
Cloth hall, now house. C15, floored in C16 with subsidiary C17 wing with some C18 cladding; restored and extended in early C20. Timber framed and clad in red brick on ground floor exposed with some close studding and curved braces on first floor. North side tile hung. Plain tiled roofs. Tall brick stack to rear of left hand wing on ridge. Stack off-ridge to front to right. L-plan with earlier wing to left. 2 storeys and attics. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows on first floor and 2 on ground floor of wing to left and 4 windows on both floors of end of projecting wing to right. Projecting stair bay on left wing with short catslide roof. Wide and shallow square bay with small pentice roof at end of left hand wing. 2 storey hipped roofed porch to right in angle with right wing. Tudor-arched entrance with moulded wooden surround and boarded and ribbed door. Interior: substantial timber frame with jowled posts. Roof of possible crown post type with only part open showing collars removed. Large kitchen fireplace with very wide chamfered bressummer.
Listing NGR: TQ7910235728

Description from record TQ 73 NE 11 :
(TQ 79103573) Old Cloth Hall (NAT) (1) The Old Cloth Hall, Coursehorn Lane, Cranbrook. Grade II*. Cloth Hall, now house. C15, floored in C16 with subsidiary C17 wing with some C18 cladding; restored and extended in early C20. Timber framed.(2) [For full description see list]. Old Cloth Hall is a U-shaped building, one third modern. It is half- timbered but with the lower storey rebuilt in brick. (3)

Building survey undertaken by Cantervury Archaeological Trust in 2011. Most of the internal features date to restoration works undertaken in the 1930s, when most of the original features were removed. (4)


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

<2> DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 29 (OS Card Reference). SKE41215.

<3> Bldgs of Eng (Ed N Pevsner) W Kent and The Weald 1980 248 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37697.

<4> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2011, The Old Cloth Hall, Coursehorn Lane, Cranbrook, Kent: An archaeological appraisal (Unpublished document). SKE17082.

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 29.
<3>OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng (Ed N Pevsner) W Kent and The Weald 1980 248 (J Newman).
<4>Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2011. The Old Cloth Hall, Coursehorn Lane, Cranbrook, Kent: An archaeological appraisal.