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Monument details

HER Number:TR 04 NE 139
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:THE WHEEL HOUSE (JUNIOR COMMON ROOM) WALLS AND GATES ATTACHED

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1999

Summary from record TR 04 NE 45 :

15th century, restored and extended 20th century


Grid Reference:TR 0549 4683
Map Sheet:TR04NE
Parish:WYE WITH HINXHILL, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • BREWHOUSE (Brew House, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SITE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 1999 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1275530: THE WHEEL HOUSE (JUNIOR COMMON ROOM) WALLS AND GATES ATTACHED

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 0446 0546 WYE HIGH STREET (north side)
8/265 The Wheel House 27.11.57 (Junior Common Room) walls and gates attached
GV II*
Brewhouse, now common room. C15, restored and extended (walls etc) C20. Ragstone rubble with plain tiled roof. Single storey rectangular block with hipped roof with stack to west side and louvre-dormers. Triple arched window to road front (south). Interior with roof of 2 large plain crown posts braced to ties and to collar purlin. On the road front are a rubble wall to left, about 5 feet high, some 30 yards long to the Latin School, with arched gateway and stepped gable. To right an iron gate in four centred arched gateway with label hood and raised surround. Beyond an early C20 hipped outhouse. of rubble with tiled roof.
Listing NGR: TR0549046827

Description from record TR 04 NE 45 :
(TR0554680 Wye College [NAT] (1) Wye College, the Wheel House (Junior Common Room) walls and gates attached. Brewhouse, now common room. 15th c restored and extended (walls etc) 20th c Ragstone rubble with plain tiled roof. Single storey rectangular block with hipped roof with stack to west side and louvre dormers. (Listed grade II*) [Full archaeological description] (2) Triple arched window to raod front (south). Interior with roof of 2 large plain corwn posts braced to ties and to collar purlin. On the road front are a rubble wall to left, about 5 feet high, some 40 yards long to the Latin School, with arched gateway and stepped gable. To righ an iron gate in four centred arched gateway with label hood and raised surround. Beyond an early C20 hipped outhouse of rubble with tiled roof. (3)

Listing NGR: TR0549046827


<1> OS 1: 10000 1980 (OS Card Reference). SKE48134.

<2> DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16th February 1989 (115) (OS Card Reference). SKE40485.

<3> English Heritage Listed Buildings online (OS Card Reference). SKE41618.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 1: 10000 1980.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16th February 1989 (115).
<3>OS Card Reference: English Heritage Listed Buildings online.

Related records

TR 04 NE 104Parent of: THE LATIN SCHOOL WYE COLLEGE (Listed Building)
TR 04 NE 105Part of: WYE COLLEGE, ENTRANCE AND HALL QUADRANGLES (Listed Building)