Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 298 - FLISHINGHURST HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TQ 7567 3756 (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 GOUDHURST ROAD TQ 73 NE (south side) 3/122 Flishinghurst House 9.6.52 GV II
Hall-house, now house. Later C15, floored in C16, with C17-C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed on rendered plinth with some C19 close studding and curved braces. Plaster infilling. Plain tiled half hipped roofs. Hall- house plan, now much altered. 2 storeys and attics with tall brick stack in centre of east range with tall C20 Elizabethan-style brick stack on north range and brick stack on south range. EAST SIDE: Return half hipped gable end of south range to left. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows on both floors to right and 1 window in gable to left with central windows on both floors flanked by wide low ranges of windows under wall-plates. Boarded and ribbed door in centre of front with early C20 pentice-roofed weather-porch on 2 timber supports. SOUTH SIDE: 1 hipped dormer to left. C18 block to left with exposed framing of thin scantling on 1st floor and diagonal braces. Jetty to right with dragon-beam and post at south-west corner, rebuilt in C17. Larger block of 2 storeys to north of early C20 date with exposed framing. INTERIOR: Substantial timber frame visible. Chamfered ceiling beams.
Listing NGR: TQ7567637565


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