Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 230 - COLLINS FARMHOUSE
Summary
Location
| Grid reference | TQ 7935 3754 (point) | 
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TQ73NE | 
| District | TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT | 
| Civil Parish | CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT | 
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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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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Feb 19 2008 12:26PM