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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547339

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  For the Record
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings