Sissinghurst Court and Entrance Wall
SISSINGHURST COURT AND ENTRANCE WALL, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067750
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sissinghurst Court and Entrance Wall
- Statutory Address:
- SISSINGHURST COURT AND ENTRANCE WALL, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067750
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sissinghurst Court and Entrance Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SISSINGHURST COURT AND ENTRANCE WALL, THE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SISSINGHURST COURT AND ENTRANCE WALL, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 78884 37394
Details
CRANBROOK THE STREET, (SOUTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/255 Sissinghurst Court 19.12.85 and Entrance Wall GV II
House. C17 with large additions of circa 1920. Part timber-framed (to south- west). Red brick on ground floor, exposed close studding above. Plain tiled roof. South side: Half-hipped return wing to left (the original building) with lower gabled projection to right. Moulded barge-boards. Two storeys and garret in wing to left. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows on first floor with cornice-hood over central first floor window, and 5 windows on ground floor. Wood-framed moulded lattice casements. Tudor-arched doorway to left with moulded surround and boarded door. East (Entrance) Front: Long return wing to left, completely blank with projecting chimney breast and tall stack in angle. One window on each floor of this wing. Long dormer in east wing with gabled projection to right. Tudor-arched doorway with moulded surround, floral carvings in spandrels and boarded door to left of projection with long lattice wooden mullioned window to left. Casements with oval stained glass inserts. Lattice glazing. Service wing to right behind. Entrance wall, 15 yards long, attached to left-hand wing, with central gate piers and ball-finials. Railed gate with scrolled panels, dog-rails and decorative overthrow. Interior: some plasterwork in C20 block. Evidence of substantial timber-frame in old block.
Listing NGR: TQ7888437394
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169106
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 24 Kent,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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