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Collins Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Sissinghurst, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1091 / 51°6'32"N

Longitude: 0.5608 / 0°33'38"E

OS Eastings: 579359

OS Northings: 137542

OS Grid: TQ793375

Mapcode National: GBR PT6.JLP

Mapcode Global: VHJN6.NDV3

Plus Code: 9F324H56+J8

Entry Name: Collins Farmhouse

Listing Date: 20 June 1967

Last Amended: 19 May 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1084813

English Heritage Legacy ID: 169101

ID on this website: 101084813

Location: Sissinghurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN17

County: Kent

District: Tunbridge Wells

Town: Tunbridge Wells

Civil Parish: Cranbrook & Sissinghurst

Built-Up Area: Sissinghurst

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Tagged with: Farmhouse

Description


CRANBROOK THE STREET, (NORTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/250 Collins Farmhouse, 20.6.67 (formerly listed as Collin's Place, Sissinghurst) GV II

Cloth hall, now house. Early C16 with C18 additions and C19 cladding and alterations. Timber-framed and clad with red and blue brick on ground floor to right and tile-hung above with wide rendered band below eaves. Projecting gabled wing to left, with red and blue brick ground floor, and weather-boarded first floor. Plain tiled half-hipped roofs. Very tall central brick ridge stack. Two storeys and garrets. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows on each floor, mixture of C18 casements and large C19 wood mullion and transom windows. Half-glazed door in centre with gabled brick weather porch. Deep catslide extension to rear out of which grows C18 2½ storey half-hipped rear block to right. Interior: Substantial timber frame survives. Inserted stack with stone fire surround dated 1592.

Listing NGR: TQ7935937542

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