King'S Head House is a Grade II* listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
King'S Head House
- WRENN ID
- white-outpost-candle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King's Head House is a hall-house that has been converted into a house and cottage. It dates from the 15th century, with projecting wings added in the 16th century, and it was clad in the 18th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame with a ground floor made of red and blue brick and a first floor that is tile-hung. The roof is hipped and has plain tiles, with boxed eaves and deep projecting lower return gabled wings. The left wing has barge-boards, and there is a large side stack on the left with set-offs, along with a low stack on the rear wing.
The house is two storeys high, with jettied gables on the wings supported by moulded bressummers on brackets. There is a brick step in the re-entrant face of the left wing, which may have originally had a projecting stack that has since been reduced to eaves level. The windows are arranged irregularly, with one window in the return gable to the left, four windows on the first floor (one under each gable and two in the centre), and four windows on the ground floor (also one under each gable and two in the centre). The entrance is located to the right of a recess and features a boarded and ribbed door. There is also a boarded door in the left-hand gable end to the right. The wings at the rear, particularly the deep central wing, likely represent the original hall-house, with the jetty on the street front being the end jetty.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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