Listed Building record TQ 54 SE 170 - PACKS IN THE WOOD

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
The following building shall be added to the list: TUNBRIDGE WELLS HILBERT ROAD TQ 54 SE 11/230 Packs in the Wood II Farmhouse, now house. Late C17; mid C19 rear outshut. Timber frame, rendered to front and rear and tile-hung to sides, set on tall colour-washed brick plinth; old plain tile roof, gabled to right and half-hipped with gablet to left; brick lean-to with old tile roof to rear; brick ridge stack and right end stack. 2-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Bracketed flat hood over C20 plank door; flat rendered arches over C20 2 and 3-light case- ments. Plank door to rear outshut. Interior: exposed timber frame and cham- fered beams; room to left has chamfered bressummer over open fireplace; late C17 clasped-purlin roof with straight windbraces and of slight scantling, has queen-post trusses flanking central stack. History: probably built soon after it was leased to John Pack in 1686.
Listing NGR: TQ5936440559

A heritage statement was completed in December 2019 prior to planned refurbishment. (2)

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

<2> Alan J Legg, 2019, Packs in the Wood, Hilbert Road, Tunbridge Wells, Heritage Statement (Unpublished document). SKE53600.