Listed Building: THE OLD FLYING HORSE INN (1216805)
Grade | II* |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1414, 8, 241 |
Date assigned | 27 November 1957 |
Date last amended |
Description
TR 0446 0546 WYE THE GREEN (east side)
8/241 Nos. 1, 3 and 5 27.11.57 (The Old Flying Horse Inn)
GV II*
Student hostel, sometime house and Inn. Late C14 altered C16, clad C18. Timber framed and clad with painted brick and painted tile hanging on 1st floor. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys, basement and garret, with plinth, continuous moulded bressumer, the ground floor recessed to right 3 bays with jetty on brackets. Moulded wooden eaves cornice to hipped roof, with stacks to centre left and to right, and hipped dormer to left return. Five glazing bar sashes on 1st floor, and 2 to left on ground floor, with 3 wooden casements to right. Central door of 4 panels and 3 steps, and panelled door to right with 2 steps. Basement openings to centre. Left return (to High Street) with roof stepped down to rear range with stack at end left. Wooden casement and glazing bar sash on 1st floor, 3 wooden casements on ground floor. Panelled corner door with pilastered surround and flat hood. Single storey weather boarded block at extreme left (eastern end), with half-hipped plain tiled roof and half-doors in gable end. Catslide outshot and 2 hipped wings to rear. Interior: extremely rare survival of coved dais canopy, with evidence of colouring, unaltered when open hall floored C16. Crown post roof. The whole dates to late C14 (G.W. Parkin, Wye Local History Magazine). Part of this building fronts on to the High Street and is cross-referenced under that road.
Listing NGR: TR0548346806
External Links (0)
Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TR 0547 4680 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR04NE |
Civil Parish | WYE WITH HINXHILL, ASHFORD, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Jun 3 2010 1:53PM