King's Head House
KING'S HEAD HOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1084814
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- King's Head House
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S HEAD HOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1084814
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- King's Head House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING'S HEAD HOUSE, 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:
- KING'S HEAD HOUSE, 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 79340 37534
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169103
- 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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