Description

TQ 73 NE
3/83
20.6.67

CRANBROOK
COURSEHORN LANE
(east side)
Coursehorn

GV
II*

Cloth hall, now boarding house of Dulwich College Preparatory School. C16,
clad and altered in mid C18. Timber framed with red and blue brick chequer
ground floor and tile hung first floor. Plain tiled hipped roof with large
end stack to right and stack on wing to left at rear. 2 gabled dormers. 2
storeys and attics; regular 4 window front, glazing bar sashes with open boxes.
Entrance with panelled door in architrave surround and flat hood on curved
brackets over on right return front. Now attached to C20 1 storey school
buildings to rear at right. Interior: heavy framing apparent with heavy ribbed
and moulded ceiling beams over 1st floor. Very large fireplace at east end
of hall with wide Tudor arched fireplace and decorated spandrels set in shallow
Tudor arched recess. Decorated bressummer in rear room's fireplace, probably
brought in. Queen post, side purlin roof now partially hidden. Window shutters
still complete. Single C16 moulded doorway on ground floor.

Listing NGR: TQ7925835826

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547719

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