Listed Building: THE WOOLPACK INN (1185431)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1419, 5, 148 |
Date assigned | 10 August 1988 |
Date last amended |
Description
TQ 93 SE WAREHORNE CHURCH ROAD (north side) 5/148 The Woolpack Inn GV II Public house. Late C17, extended early Cl9. Painted brick with tile hanging to left return, and extended with weather boarded range. Plain tiled roof. Lobby entry plan. Two storeys and attic on plinth with dogtooth cornice to hipped roof with 2 raking dormers and stack to centre left. Wooden casement and glazing bar sash on 1st floor, and segmentally headed wooden casement and tripartite glazing bar sash on ground floor. The right hand weather boarded block is windowless, though with 2 fine canted 2 storey bays on right return. Catslide outshot to left return. Boarded door to centre left, in projecting 2 storey flat roofed porch, the cornice carried across the top, with painted sign board and iron lamp over. The cellars appear to have a well attested tunnel leading under the road to the church of St. Matthew opposite. (A renowned smuggling centre). (See Waugh - Smuggling in Kent and Sussex, 66 and 69).
Listing NGR: TQ9894832562
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TQ 9894 3256 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ93SE |
Civil Parish | WAREHORNE, ASHFORD, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 17 2006 9:59AM