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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1600 to 1930

Summary from record TQ 73 NE 25 :

House, C17 with c.1920 additions.

Monument Types

• HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1600 AD to 1930 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK THE STREET, (SOUTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/255 Sissinghurst Court 19.12.85 and Entrance Wall GV II
House. C17 with large additions of circa 1920. Part timber-framed (to south- west). Red brick on ground floor, exposed close studding above. Plain tiled roof. South side: Half-hipped return wing to left (the original building) with lower gabled projection to right. Moulded barge-boards. Two storeys and garret in wing to left. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows on first floor with cornice-hood over central first floor window, and 5 windows on ground floor. Wood-framed moulded lattice casements. Tudor-arched doorway to left with moulded surround and boarded door. East (Entrance) Front: Long return wing to left, completely blank with projecting chimney breast and tall stack in angle. One window on each floor of this wing. Long dormer in east wing with gabled projection to right. Tudor-arched doorway with moulded surround, floral carvings in spandrels and boarded door to left of projection with long lattice wooden mullioned window to left. Casements with oval stained glass inserts. Lattice glazing. Service wing to right behind. Entrance wall, 15 yards long, attached to left-hand wing, with central gate piers and ball-finials. Railed gate with scrolled panels, dog-rails and decorative overthrow. Interior: some plasterwork in C20 block. Evidence of substantial timber-frame in old block.
Listing NGR: TQ7888437394

Description from record TQ 73 NE 25 :
[Name TQ 78883739] Sissinghurst Court [NAT] (1) House. C17 with large additions of circa 1920. Part timber-framed (to south west). Red brick on ground floor, exposed close studding above. [Full architectural description] LISTED GRADE II. (2)

<1> OS 1:10000 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48157.

<2> DOE(HHR)Dist of Tunbridge Wells, Kent (19 May 1986) 93 (OS Card Reference). SKE41389.

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