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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 73 NE 128
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:BELL COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1799. Cloth Hall (now PO and cottage) (15th c with later additions and alterations)


Grid Reference:TQ 7941 3752
Map Sheet:TQ73NE
Parish:CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
  • CLOTH HALL (CLOTH HALL, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POST OFFICE (POST OFFICE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1084811: BELL COTTAGE AND SISSINGHURST POST OFFICE

Full description

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Description from record TQ 73 NE 19 :
(TQ 79423752) PO (NAT) (1) Sissinghurst Post Office and Bell Cottage, (formerly listed as No 7 the Street, Sissinghurst, Sissinghurst Post Office with the Post- Masters's house, Rose Cottage, Sissinghurst). The Street, Sissinghurst. Grade II*. Cloth Hall, now post office and cottage. C15 altered in C16 with C18 cladding timber-framed. (2) [For full description see list].

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK THE STREET, (NORTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/247 Sissinghurst Post 20.6.67 Office and Bell Cottage, (formerly listed as No 7 The Street, Sissinghurst Sissinghurst Post Office with the Post- Master's House, Rose Cottage, Sissinghurst) GV II*
Cloth hall, now post office and cottage. C15 altered in C16 with C18 cladding. Timber-framed on rendered plinth with weather-boarding cladding and rendered ground floor to right. Plain tiled roof with stack to rear at left, gablet of rear wing appearing over main ridge towards centre. Brick stack on rear wing. Sissinghurst Post Office, (to right). Irregular fenestration of 3 windows on first floor, casements. Large shop-front projecting at left with central glazed door. Large casement window to right of centre. Boarded door to right. Bell Cottage, (to left). Two storeys. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows on first floor and one large window in centre on ground floor, C19 casements. Boarded door with central glazed panel to right. Central 2-storey wing to rear, with jettied gable and octagonal oriel on brackets below. Similar coved jettied gable on west face of this wing, on bressummer decorated with billet decoration. Octagonal oriel below on brackets. Interior: Substantial timber-frame. Heavily jowled posts and chamfered ground floor ceiling beams.
Listing NGR: TQ7941637524 (3)


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

<2> DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 89 (OS Card Reference). SKE41219.

<3> 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>XYOS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 89. [Mapped feature: #38349 Cottage, ]
<3>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.