Listed Building: KING'S HEAD HOUSE (1084814)

Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1608, 8, 252
Date assigned 20 June 1967
Date last amended

Description

CRANBROOK THE STREET, (NORTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/252 King's Head House 20.6.67 (formerly listed as King's Head PH) GV II* Hall-house, now house and cottage. C15, with projecting wings of the C16, clad in the C18, with C20 alterations. Timber-framed with red and blue brick ground floor and tile-hung first floor. Boxed eaves to hipped plain tiled roof with deep projecting lower return gabled wings, to left with barge-boards. Large side-stack to left with set-offs, low stack on wing to rear. Two storeys, jettied gables to wings with moulded bressummers on brackets. Brick step in re-entrant face of wing to left, possibly originally projecting stack now taken down to eaves level. Irregular fenestration. One window in return gable to left, 4 window first floor with one window under each gable and 2 in centre. Four windows on ground floor, with one window under each gable and 2 in centre. Entrance to right of recess, with boarded and ribbed door. Boarded door in left hand gable end to right. The centre on the ground floor was originally recessed, under a first floor jetty. Wings to rear, in centre and left, that to centre very deep, and probably the original hall-house, of which the jetty on the street front was the end jetty. Listing NGR: TQ7934037534

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7934 3753 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NE
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM