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King's Head House

A Grade II* Listed Building in Sissinghurst, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.109 / 51°6'32"N

Longitude: 0.5606 / 0°33'38"E

OS Eastings: 579340

OS Northings: 137534

OS Grid: TQ793375

Mapcode National: GBR PT6.JJJ

Mapcode Global: VHJN6.NDP5

Plus Code: 9F324H56+J6

Entry Name: King's Head House

Listing Date: 20 June 1967

Last Amended: 19 May 1986

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1084814

English Heritage Legacy ID: 169103

ID on this website: 101084814

Location: Sissinghurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN17

County: Kent

District: Tunbridge Wells

Civil Parish: Cranbrook & Sissinghurst

Built-Up Area: Sissinghurst

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


CRANBROOK THE STREET, (NORTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/252 King's Head House 20.6.67 (formerly listed as King's Head PH) GV II*

Hall-house, now house and cottage. C15, with projecting wings of the C16, clad in the C18, with C20 alterations. Timber-framed with red and blue brick ground floor and tile-hung first floor. Boxed eaves to hipped plain tiled roof with deep projecting lower return gabled wings, to left with barge-boards. Large side-stack to left with set-offs, low stack on wing to rear. Two storeys, jettied gables to wings with moulded bressummers on brackets. Brick step in re-entrant face of wing to left, possibly originally projecting stack now taken down to eaves level. Irregular fenestration. One window in return gable to left, 4 window first floor with one window under each gable and 2 in centre. Four windows on ground floor, with one window under each gable and 2 in centre. Entrance to right of recess, with boarded and ribbed door. Boarded door in left hand gable end to right. The centre on the ground floor was originally recessed, under a first floor jetty. Wings to rear, in centre and left, that to centre very deep, and probably the original hall-house, of which the jetty on the street front was the end jetty.

Listing NGR: TQ7934037534

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