Collins Farmhouse

CRANBROOK THE STREET, (NORTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/250 Collins Farmhouse, 20.6.67 (formerly listed as Collin's Place, Sissinghurst) GV II

Cloth hall, now house. Early C16 with C18 additions and C19 cladding and alterations. Timber-framed and clad with red and blue brick on ground floor to right and tile-hung above with wide rendered band below eaves. Projecting gabled wing to left, with red and blue brick ground floor, and weather-boarded first floor. Plain tiled half-hipped roofs. Very tall central brick ridge stack. Two storeys and garrets. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows on each floor, mixture of C18 casements and large C19 wood mullion and transom windows. Half-glazed door in centre with gabled brick weather porch. Deep catslide extension to rear out of which grows C18 2½ storey half-hipped rear block to right. Interior: Substantial timber frame survives. Inserted stack with stone fire surround dated 1592.

Listing NGR: TQ7935937542