The Poet at Matfield
The Poet at Matfield, Maidstone Road, Matfield, Tonbridge, TN12 7JH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250191
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Poet at Matfield
- Statutory Address:
- The Poet at Matfield, Maidstone Road, Matfield, Tonbridge, TN12 7JH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250191
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Poet at Matfield
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Poet at Matfield, Maidstone Road, Matfield, Tonbridge, TN12 7JH
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 Poet at Matfield, Maidstone Road, Matfield, Tonbridge, TN12 7JH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brenchley and Matfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 66090 42106
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 June 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 64 SE
6/144
BRENCHLEY
MATFIELD
MAIDSTONE ROAD (west side)
The Poet at Matfield
(Formerly listed as Standings Cross Public House)
GV
II
Public House. Circa 1700 with C19 and early C20 additions. Ground floor Flemish bond brick, first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: the pub faces west south west. The front block was originally two rooms wide with a larger heated room to the left, the parlour, and an unheated service room to the right. The rear block was a service block and includes a rear lateral stack, said to have served a bakery in the rear part of the building. Probably C20 one-room plan additions at both ends of the front block. The partition between the parlour and unheated service room has been removed.
Exterior: two storeys. Symmetrical three window front, the roof of the main block gabled at ends with one window single-storey additions to left and right. Central open gabled porch with lattice panels to the front and a C19 or early C20 half-glazed front door preserving its original glass etched with the name of the pub. Three first floor and two ground floor early C20 windows with square leaded casements, two-light to the first floor, three-light to the ground floor windows which have high transoms. One three-light transomed window to each single-storey addition.
Interior: the left hand room retains a circa 1800 timber chimney-piece with a cambered arch flanked by contemporary cupboards. C19 matchboarded dado. Plain exposed carpentry.
Roof: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ6609042106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432455
- 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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