Hawkhurst Place
HAWKHURST PLACE, RYE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084602
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Hawkhurst Place
- Statutory Address:
- HAWKHURST PLACE, RYE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084602
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Hawkhurst Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAWKHURST PLACE, RYE ROAD
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:
- HAWKHURST PLACE, RYE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 76801 30313
Details
HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (south side) 17/421 Hawkhurst Place 9.6.52 - II House. Circa 1500 and altered c.1600. Timber framed and exposed close studding with plaster infill, and weather-boarded to return and rear elevations. Plain tiled roof. Hall house converted to continuous jetty. Two storeys and attic on stone base with continuous jetty on brackets and roof hipped to left with gablet and with stacks to rear and projecting and offset at left, the flue rebuilt, the base in English bond brick, with segmentally headed opening to cellar. Three gables with moulded bargeboards and coved oriels with moulded mullions and transoms and cornices, and with small 2-light leaded casements in gable heads. Three bay windows on ground floor, with similar 5-light mullioned and transomedwindows to oriels. Rib and stud doors to centre left and centre right in C19 or C20 round-headed surrounds. Catslide outshot to rear. Interior: smoke blackened crown post roof, with octagonal crown post with shallow mouldings about 5 feet high. Large scantling chamfered beams with stop-chamfers through hoist and inglenooks. Wainscotting of c.1600, with tendril-scroll frieze panels in ground floor room and fillet moulded wainscott partitions in entrance hall. Hasted calls the place 'formerly of some account', converted for the Peckham family, late C16.
Listing NGR: TQ7680130313
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169771
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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