Listed Building record TQ 84 SW 211 - POPLAR HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1450 to 1732

Location

Grid reference TQ 8093 4230 (point)
Map sheet TQ84SW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish FRITTENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
FRITTENDEN STAPLEHURST ROAD TQ 84 SW (north side)
3/48 Poplar House (formerly listed as Wayside and Tregonnen) II House. C16 or earlier, altered early C18. Timber framed and clad with red and blue brick and weather boarding. Plain tiled roof. Lobby entry plan, probably of hall house origin. Two storeys, both return elevation jettied with moulded wooden modillion eaves cornice to roof, half-hipped to left, hipped to right, with centre left cruci-form stack cluster. Two 3 light and 2 light wooden case- ments on 1st floor, and 3 light metal casement and 3 and 2 light wooden casem- ents on ground floor. Boarded door to centre left. The stack has a plastered section with an heraldic crest incised upon it. The house is either an end- jettied hall house, a re-fronted Wealden or a re-fronted continuous-jetty build- ing (ie ranging from possible early C15 to mid C16 dates.)
Listing NGR: TQ8150441227


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

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  • --- Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM