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Monument details

HER Number:TR 04 NE 48
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:The Old Flying Horse Inn

Summary

Late 14th c, altered 16th c, clad 18th c

Summary from record TR 04 NE 109:

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1367 to 1799

Summary from record TR 04 NE 64 :

The Old Flying Horse Inn : listed building

Grid Reference:TR 0548 4680
Map Sheet:TR04NE
Parish:WYE WITH HINXHILL, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • INN (INN, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1367 AD to 1799 AD)
  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • INN (INN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • INN (INN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1216805: THE OLD FLYING HORSE INN

Full description

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(TR05484680) The Old Flying Horse Inn (1) No.s 1, 3 & 5 (The Old Flying Horse Inn) Student hostel, sometime house and inn. Late 14th c altered 16th c, clad 18th c. 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 to right 3 bays with jetty on brackets. (Listed Grade II*) [Full archaeological description] (2)

Description from record TR 04 NE 109:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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

Description from record TR 04 NE 64 :
Listed building : no additional information available


<1> OS 1: 2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48135.

<2> DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16 February 1989 (103) (OS Card Reference). SKE40469.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 1: 2500.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16 February 1989 (103).