The Woolpack Inn

THE WOOLPACK INN, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185431
Date first listed:
10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
The Woolpack Inn
Statutory Address:
THE WOOLPACK INN, CHURCH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185431
Date first listed:
10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
The Woolpack Inn
Statutory Address 1:
THE WOOLPACK INN, CHURCH 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE WOOLPACK INN, CHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:
Warehorne
National Grid Reference:
TQ 98940 32561

Details

TQ 93 SE WAREHORNE CHURCH ROAD (north side) 5/148 The Woolpack Inn GV II Public house. Late C17, extended early Cl9. Painted brick with tile hanging to left return, and extended with weather boarded range. Plain tiled roof. Lobby entry plan. Two storeys and attic on plinth with dogtooth cornice to hipped roof with 2 raking dormers and stack to centre left. Wooden casement and glazing bar sash on 1st floor, and segmentally headed wooden casement and tripartite glazing bar sash on ground floor. The right hand weather boarded block is windowless, though with 2 fine canted 2 storey bays on right return. Catslide outshot to left return. Boarded door to centre left, in projecting 2 storey flat roofed porch, the cornice carried across the top, with painted sign board and iron lamp over. The cellars appear to have a well attested tunnel leading under the road to the church of St. Matthew opposite. (A renowned smuggling centre). (See Waugh - Smuggling in Kent and Sussex, 66 and 69).

Listing NGR: TQ9894832562

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
181734
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Waugh, M, Smuggling in Kent and Sussex 1700-1890, (1985)

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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