Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 125 - KING'S HEAD HOUSE

Description from record TQ 73 NE 20 :
(TQ 79333753) King's Head (PH) (NAT) (1) Hall house, now house and cottage. C15, with projecting wings of the C16 clad in the C18, with C20 alterations. Timber-framed. (2) [For full description see list].

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK THE STREET, (NORTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/252 King's Head House 20.6.67 (formerly listed as King's Head PH) GV II*
Hall-house, now house and cottage. C15, with projecting wings of the C16, clad in the C18, with C20 alterations. Timber-framed with red and blue brick ground floor and tile-hung first floor. Boxed eaves to hipped plain tiled roof with deep projecting lower return gabled wings, to left with barge-boards. Large side-stack to left with set-offs, low stack on wing to rear. Two storeys, jettied gables to wings with moulded bressummers on brackets. Brick step in re-entrant face of wing to left, possibly originally projecting stack now taken down to eaves level. Irregular fenestration. One window in return gable to left, 4 window first floor with one window under each gable and 2 in centre. Four windows on ground floor, with one window under each gable and 2 in centre. Entrance to right of recess, with boarded and ribbed door. Boarded door in left hand gable end to right. The centre on the ground floor was originally recessed, under a first floor jetty. Wings to rear, in centre and left, that to centre very deep, and probably the original hall-house, of which the jetty on the street front was the end jetty. Listing NGR: TQ7934037534 (3)

Archive material (4)

<1> OS 1:2500 1970 (OS Card Reference). SKE48212.

<2> DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 91 (OS Card Reference). SKE41220.

<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<4> Historic England, Archive material associated with King's Head House, Sissinghurst, Listed Building (Archive). SKE53928.