Description

GOUDHURST CRANBROOK ROAD
TQ 7237-7337 (south side)

15/159
Black Swan Hall
GV II
House C16, altered and extended mid C16. Timber-framed and rendered, with plain
tiled roof. Continuous jettied lobby entry plan in origin, with rear wing. Entry
now in right return elevation, with 2 storey and garret bargeboarded gable to
left, hipped roof to right and 3 wooden casement to each floor in moulded
surrounds, with bracketed cills. Central panelled door in moulded surround. Left
return (original entrance front) of 2 storeys as plinth with continuous jetty and
roof hipped with gablet to left, with moulded stack cluster to centre left. Three
wooden casements on 1st floor, and 5 on ground floor, all on bracketed cills, that
to centre left in projecting press underbuilt to jetty. The house was once the
Black Swan alehouse. The brewhouse and cider press surviving to the C20.

Listing NGR: TQ7321737815

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26622995

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability