Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 230 - COLLINS FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899

Location

Grid reference TQ 7935 3754 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK THE STREET, (NORTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/250 Collins Farmhouse, 20.6.67 (formerly listed as Collin's Place, Sissinghurst) GV II
Cloth hall, now house. Early C16 with C18 additions and C19 cladding and alterations. Timber-framed and clad with red and blue brick on ground floor to right and tile-hung above with wide rendered band below eaves. Projecting gabled wing to left, with red and blue brick ground floor, and weather-boarded first floor. Plain tiled half-hipped roofs. Very tall central brick ridge stack. Two storeys and garrets. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows on each floor, mixture of C18 casements and large C19 wood mullion and transom windows. Half-glazed door in centre with gabled brick weather porch. Deep catslide extension to rear out of which grows C18 2½ storey half-hipped rear block to right. Interior: Substantial timber frame survives. Inserted stack with stone fire surround dated 1592.
Listing NGR: TQ7935937542


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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM