Listed Building: THE OWL HOUSE (1085274)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1355, 3, 197
Date assigned 10 October 1989
Date last amended

Description

LAMBERHURST MOUNT PLEASANT TQ 63 NE (north side) 3/197 The Owl House II House. C16. Timber framed and clad with red and blue chequered brick on ground floor with tile hung first floor and plain tiled roof. Two storeys on sandstone plinth with bellcast to first floor and with roof half-hipped to left with stacks to rear and projecting cluster at end right. Wooden casements of 3, 2, 2 and 3 lights on first floor and of 4, 2 and 4 lights on ground floor with half-glazed door to centre left with sidelights. Lean-to outshot at right and catslide outshot to rear with C20 single storey service wing. Interior: full frame visible with large stone inglenook to projecting stack, and unusual revolving circular hanger set into main beam of end left bay said to be for hanging skeins of wool from. Archival material records the house in 1522; named for the 'Owlers' or smugglers who used the property C16-C18. Listing NGR: TQ6638237289

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6638 3728 (point)
Map sheet TQ63NE
Civil Parish LAMBERHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM