The Old Flying Horse Inn
THE OLD FLYING HORSE INN, 1, 3 AND 5, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216805
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Flying Horse Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FLYING HORSE INN, 1, 3 AND 5, THE GREEN
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- Date:
- 2005-05-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/13297/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216805
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Flying Horse Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD FLYING HORSE INN, 1, 3 AND 5, THE GREEN
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD FLYING HORSE INN, HIGH 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:
- THE OLD FLYING HORSE INN, 1, 3 AND 5, THE GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FLYING HORSE INN, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wye with Hinxhill
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 05480 46804
Details
TR 0446 0546 WYE THE GREEN (east side)
8/241 Nos. 1, 3 and 5 27.11.57 (The Old Flying Horse Inn)
GV II*
Student hostel, sometime house and Inn. Late C14 altered C16, clad C18. Timber framed and clad with painted brick and painted tile hanging on 1st floor. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys, basement and garret, with plinth, continuous moulded bressumer, the ground floor recessed to right 3 bays with jetty on brackets. Moulded wooden eaves cornice to hipped roof, with stacks to centre left and to right, and hipped dormer to left return. Five glazing bar sashes on 1st floor, and 2 to left on ground floor, with 3 wooden casements to right. Central door of 4 panels and 3 steps, and panelled door to right with 2 steps. Basement openings to centre. Left return (to High Street) with roof stepped down to rear range with stack at end left. Wooden casement and glazing bar sash on 1st floor, 3 wooden casements on ground floor. Panelled corner door with pilastered surround and flat hood. Single storey weather boarded block at extreme left (eastern end), with half-hipped plain tiled roof and half-doors in gable end. Catslide outshot and 2 hipped wings to rear. Interior: extremely rare survival of coved dais canopy, with evidence of colouring, unaltered when open hall floored C16. Crown post roof. The whole dates to late C14 (G.W. Parkin, Wye Local History Magazine). Part of this building fronts on to the High Street and is cross-referenced under that road.
Listing NGR: TR0548346806
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 411471
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wye Local History Magazine in Wye Local History Magazine, ()
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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