Landscape record TQ 73 NE 2 - Old Wilsley house and garden

Summary

A 1920s garden with yew-hedged compartments laid out on the south and east sides of A late 14th-early 15th century cloth hall and Wealden Hall-house with 16th, late 17th and 19th century alterations, and early 20th century extensions. The house originally consisted of a two-bay open hall, with storeyed ends, a rear projection behind the parlour and possibly another behind the services. The timber framing is on a brick plinth, with a sandstone groundfloor under the left gable and plaster elsewhere with exposed close studding in the centre.

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Grid reference Centred TQ 7800 3694 (203m by 215m) FCE
Map sheet TQ73NE
County KENT
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Barbara Simms, 2009, The Kent Compendium of Historic Parks and Gardens for Tunbridge Wells Borough: Old Wilsley (Unpublished document). SKE25199.

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> Country Life 21.8.1920 240-6 (illust) (C Hussey) (OS Card Reference). SKE39416.

<3> Country Life 2.7.1948 26.9 (illus) C Hussey) (OS Card Reference). SKE39411.

<4> Country Life 9.7.1949 78-81 (illus) (C Hussey) (OS Card Reference). SKE39461.

<5> MHLG (Prov List) Cranbrook RD Nov 1960 28 No 9/108 (OS Card Reference). SKE47062.

<6> F1 ASP 19.10.62 (OS Card Reference). SKE42177.

<7> DOE (HHR) Dist of Cranbrook RD Kent Nov 1960 28 (OS Card Reference). SKE40235.

<8> Field report for monument TQ 73 NE 2 - October, 1962 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3702.

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  • ---XY Unpublished document: Barbara Simms. 2009. The Kent Compendium of Historic Parks and Gardens for Tunbridge Wells Borough: Old Wilsley. [Mapped feature: #193 House, ]
  • <1> OS Card Reference: OS 6" 1961.
  • <2> OS Card Reference: Country Life 21.8.1920 240-6 (illust) (C Hussey).
  • <3> OS Card Reference: Country Life 2.7.1948 26.9 (illus) C Hussey).
  • <4> OS Card Reference: Country Life 9.7.1949 78-81 (illus) (C Hussey).
  • <5> OS Card Reference: MHLG (Prov List) Cranbrook RD Nov 1960 28 No 9/108.
  • <6> OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 19.10.62.
  • <7> OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Cranbrook RD Kent Nov 1960 28.
  • <8> Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 73 NE 2 - October, 1962.

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  • Non-Intrusive Event: Medieval Houses Of Kent: Architectural Survey (EKE20338)

Record last edited

Jun 29 2021 1:37PM