Langton House, Tunbridge Wells

1813 - Built for the Powell Family in the Regency style who also owned the Green and maintained it for the village

1863 - ‘All Saints Church’ erected to the left of the house

1903 - Miss Mary Watson died (an Aunt of the Powells who was living in the house)

1904 - Money left by Miss Mary Watson used to build a village hall (Watson Hall)

1908 - Lord Trayner’s wife Francis died (22.06.1908)

1909 - Lord Trayner lived in Langton House, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells: Who's Who

1918 - Lord Trayner moved back to Edinburgh from the South England to live with Isobel and Edward Salvesen

1918 - Langton House sold to

19?? - Charles Cockroft

19?? - Prince Franz Weikershem

19?? - Keith Goodrich

19?? - Idres Shah

19?? - sold to current owner by

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Large white building of the Regency period. Was built fifty Years before the church was built in 1863. Was to be the new Dower House for the Manor – to replace the Old Dower House (Manor Cottage) that dates from the 15th century.

Contact: Gillian Bassett – Tunbridge Wells Tourist Information Centre
Contact: Nigel Suckling -

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Next to “All Saints Church” on Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells

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“Francis Frith’s Photographic Memories, around Royal Tunbridge Wells” by Keith Hetherington and Geoff Butler

Trayner Home

Family Tree

Salvesen

Wyld

Sources

Photograph of Langton House, Langton Green - yet to be found

Residents include:
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Lord John Trayner
Idres Shah
Charles Cockroft
Prince Franz Weikershem
Keith Goodrich