Listed Building: WRANGLING GREEN (1249530)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1356, 6, 79
Date assigned 24 August 1990
Date last amended

Description

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY FURNACE LANE 6/79 Wrangling Green II House. Circa late C16/early C17 with a slightly later rear wing. Framed construction on a sandstone rubble base, the front elevation and rear wing weatherboarded, the right return tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick stacks. Plan: West facing. The main block is a 3 room lobby entrance plan house, the 2 left hand rooms heated from back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack, the inner (south) room unheated. The main block has an outshut containing a straight stair, probably C18. Rear left (north east) wing at right angles with an end stack is probably an C18 kitchen addition. The partition between the 2 south rooms in the main block has been removed. The present entrance is on the north return, into the wing. Exterior: 2 storeys. Main block roof gabled at the left end, half-hipped at the right end; axial stack with a staggered shaft. Asymmetrical 4-window front with 2- and 3-light C20 casements with diamond leaded panes. Similar fenestration to the wing. The rear elevation has a catslide roof over the outshut and a gabled dormer. Gabled, weatherboarded C20 porch on the left return. Interior: Well-preserved. Exposed carpentry to the ground floor rooms including chamfered crossbeams. The hall fireplace has a moulded timber lintel. Wall-framing complete with flared jowls to the wall posts. Roof: Tie-beam, clasped purlin and queen strut design, re-roofed in the C20 over the north end room of the main range. Roof of wing not seen at time of survey. Listing NGR: TQ6972741820

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6972 4182 (point)
Map sheet TQ64SE
Civil Parish BRENCHLEY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM