The Queen's Hotel
THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, RYE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123743
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Queen's Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, RYE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123743
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Queen's Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, 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:
- THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, 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 76271 30579
Details
HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (north side) Highgate 17/404 The Queen's Hotel 9.6.52 GV II Hotel and public house. C16, altered and extended C17 to c.1900. Timber framed and clad and extended with red and blue chamfered brick, with weather-boarded return wings, and some exposed frame with plaster infill to rear. Plain tiled and slate roofs. Main range of 2 storeys and attic with plinth and discontinuous brick eaves cornice to half-hipped roof with four flat roofed dormers and stack to right. Three segmentally headed tripartite glazing bar sashes to each floor, and panelled door to centre right in columned porch. Projecting to right a later C18 wing, of 2 storeys with hipped slate roof, with 2-storey canted bay with glazing bar sashes on end elevation, re-entrant elevation with Venetian windows on each floor and glazed door in C20 porch. Taller, part weather-boarded late C19 wing to right, with hipped slated roof, glazing bar sashes on first floor and casements on ground floor. Half-hipped and weather-boarded range recessed to rear right: projecting from rear of this block a half-hipped and framed wing, and gabled weather-boarded wing, with late C19 brick and weather-boarded range with corbelled stacks and glazing bar sashes. Interior: frame visible with large scantling beams. Large brick fireplaces, that to right end of main range round-backed in Header bond.
Listing NGR: TQ7627130579
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169754
- 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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