Listed Building: LITTLE PIX HALL AND ATTACHED WALL (1120929)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1351, 9, 346 |
Date assigned | 09 June 1952 |
Date last amended |
Description
HAWKHURST HIGH STREET TQ 73 SW (north side)
9/346 Little Pix Hall and attached wall (formerly 9.6.52 listed as Pixhall) - II House. C16, altered early C18. Timber framed, clad and extended with red brick on ground floor and tile hanging on first floor with plain tiled roof. Garden front (the principal elevation) 2 storeys with boxed eaves to roof with stacks to end left, to centre left and projecting and offset at end right. Three tripartite glazing bar sashes on first floor with glazing bar sash to centre right, and 3 glazing bar sashes on ground floor with half-glazed door with Gothick Y-tracery to centre right with flat cornice hood on large brackets and fluted pilaster surround. Left return with small hipped wing and larger C20 rear one, portions of English bond brickwork and sandstone base, C20 conservatory to right. Present main entry by panelled door in columned porch in mid C20 rear wing. Interior: large C18 inglenook dated in Roman characters 1732; C18 stair with stick balus- ters, turned newels and ramped handrail, and clasped purlin (originally Queen- strut) roof. The end right and rear sections of the house especially with surviving exposed frame of large scantling with curved tension bracing and gun- stock jowls, with added framed stairwell extension. Chamfered mullioned window exposed in rear wall. Cellars. Attached and projecting from end left a section of wall about 6 feet high, extending some 20 yards and including a boarded gate.
Listing NGR: TQ7353231088
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TQ 7351 3083 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ73SW |
Civil Parish | HAWKHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 5:21PM