Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 298 - FLISHINGHURST HOUSE
Summary
Location
| Grid reference | TQ 7567 3756 (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                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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- --- 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