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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 73 NE 192 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | VESTRY HALL |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1859 to 1859
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7767 3611 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ73NE |
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| Parish: | CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1859 AD to 1859 AD)
- (Alternate Type) HOSPITAL (Modern - 1914 AD to 1918 AD (at some time))
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1336910: VESTRY HALL |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK STONE STREET TQ 7736 SE (north east side) 10/219 - Vestry Hall GV II
Vestry hall and cottage to rear. 1859 in a neo-Tudor style. Grey and red brick chequer with stone window dressings. Wooden eaves cornice to plain tiled roofs. 3-storey octagonal tower with octagonal cap and decorative finial to right. 2 storey section to left with half-timbered gable with bargeboards above wide octagonal oriel on first floor and wide carriage entrance on ground floor with flanking subsidiary entrances. Cross windows to front on ground floor and first floors of tower with flanking single-light windows and shallower windows on 2nd from above shallow parapet step. Tudor- arched doorway to left on room with ribbed door. LEFT RETURN FRONT: Angled corner to left with hipped roof above and large transomed and mullioned window on first floor. Segment-headed window on ground floor with two on left return front. 3 large transom and mullion windows to left with doorway below central window, all flanked by very shallow buttresses which break back from the wall plane and merge into plinth and wall under gable, rather like flayed skin. COTTAGE TO LEFT OF LEFT RETURN FRONT: Half timbered return gable to right with mullioned windows on 1st and ground floors. Tile-hung jetty to left with two windows on first floor and boarded and ribbed door below.
Listing NGR: TQ7768636120
Used a VAD hospital between 1914-1918
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.
Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War. |
