Listed Building: THE QUEEN'S HOTEL (1123743)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1351, 17, 404
Date assigned 09 June 1952
Date last amended

Description

HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (north side) Highgate 17/404 The Queen's Hotel 9.6.52 GV II Hotel and public house. C16, altered and extended C17 to c.1900. Timber framed and clad and extended with red and blue chamfered brick, with weather-boarded return wings, and some exposed frame with plaster infill to rear. Plain tiled and slate roofs. Main range of 2 storeys and attic with plinth and discontinuous brick eaves cornice to half-hipped roof with four flat roofed dormers and stack to right. Three segmentally headed tripartite glazing bar sashes to each floor, and panelled door to centre right in columned porch. Projecting to right a later C18 wing, of 2 storeys with hipped slate roof, with 2-storey canted bay with glazing bar sashes on end elevation, re-entrant elevation with Venetian windows on each floor and glazed door in C20 porch. Taller, part weather-boarded late C19 wing to right, with hipped slated roof, glazing bar sashes on first floor and casements on ground floor. Half-hipped and weather-boarded range recessed to rear right: projecting from rear of this block a half-hipped and framed wing, and gabled weather-boarded wing, with late C19 brick and weather-boarded range with corbelled stacks and glazing bar sashes. Interior: frame visible with large scantling beams. Large brick fireplaces, that to right end of main range round-backed in Header bond. Listing NGR: TQ7613130559

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7627 3057 (point)
Map sheet TQ73SE
Civil Parish HAWKHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Jan 26 2011 10:22AM