Listed Building record TR 04 NE 48 - The Old Flying Horse Inn

Summary

Late 14th c, altered 16th c, clad 18th c Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1367 to 1799 The Old Flying Horse Inn : listed building

Location

Grid reference TR 0547 4680 (point) FCE
Map sheet TR04NE
County KENT
District ASHFORD, KENT
Civil Parish WYE WITH HINXHILL, ASHFORD, KENT

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

(TR05484680) The Old Flying Horse Inn (1) No.s 1, 3 & 5 (The Old Flying Horse Inn) Student hostel, sometime house and inn. Late 14th c altered 16th c, clad 18th c. 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 to right 3 bays with jetty on brackets. (Listed Grade II*) [Full archaeological description] (2)

Description from record TR 04 NE 109:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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 (3)

Description from record TR 04 NE 64 :
Listed building : no additional information available

Historic England archive material: BF040591 THE OLD FLYING HORSE INN, WYE WITH HINXHILL File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/74 Labelled sheet of detail drawings of the Old Flying Horse Inn, Wye, with a sketch showing its canopy in relation to other features, and a moulding profile


<1> OS 1: 2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48135.

<2> DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16 February 1989 (103) (OS Card Reference). SKE40469.

<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1> OS Card Reference: OS 1: 2500.
  • <2> OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16 February 1989 (103).
  • <3> Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey (EKE19937)
  • Non-Intrusive Event: Medieval Houses Of Kent: Architectural Survey (EKE20338)

Record last edited

Nov 1 2024 10:35PM