Description

BENENDEN TQ83SW CRANBROOK ROAD 1350-0/3/27 The Old Manor House 09/06/52 GV II House. East wing is late C15 timber-framed. Wealden hall-house refronted in C19 and restored in C20, L-wing to west is C20. Original building faced with tiles on a red brick plinth. 1st floor of end window bays oversails on protruding ends of floor joists and brackets. Sprocket eaves, the centre portion between the oversailing window bays project on curved braces at the sides and on bracket to the centre. Steeply pitched tiled roof with gablets and off central late C16 cruciform stack. 2 storeys 4 windows. Mullioned windows with diamond- shaped or small square leaded panes. Doorcase with flat hood on brackets. External stone chimneystack to rear. L wing to west is C20. Timber-framed with plastered infill. Tiled roof with brick chimneystack. 2 storeys and attics: 5 windows. 2 hipped dormers. Casements with leaded lights. Left gable tile hung. East wing has end of hall beam, 2 original service entrances and octagonal moulded crown post. (Photographs in N.B.R.).

Listing NGR: TQ8058833097

External Links

• Wikidata Q26371453

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)