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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 73 NE 125 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | KING'S HEAD HOUSE |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1999 15th c with later additions and alterations
| Grid Reference: | TQ 79340 37534 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ73NE |
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| Parish: | CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1084814: KING'S HEAD HOUSE |
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Full description
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Description from record TQ 73 NE 20 :
(TQ 79333753) King's Head (PH) (NAT) (1) Hall house, now house and cottage. C15, with projecting wings of the C16 clad in the C18, with C20 alterations. Timber-framed. (2) [For full description see list].
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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 (3)
Archive material (4)
<1> OS 1:2500 1970 (OS Card Reference). SKE48212.
<2> DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 91 (OS Card Reference). SKE41220.
<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<4> Historic England, Archive material associated with King's Head House, Sissinghurst, Listed Building (Archive). SKE53928.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1970. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 91. |
| <3>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #38948 Cottage, ] |
| <4> | Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with King's Head House, Sissinghurst, Listed Building. |
