The Queen'S Hotel

The Queen's Hotel is a hotel and public house located on Rye Road in Hawkhurst. It dates back to the 16th century and underwent alterations and extensions from the 17th century to around 1900. The building features a timber frame that is clad and extended with red and blue chamfered brick, along with weather-boarded return wings. Some of the frame is exposed with plaster infill at the rear. The roofs are plain tiled and slate.

The main range of the hotel has two storeys and an attic, with a plinth and a discontinuous brick eaves cornice beneath a half-hipped roof. It includes four flat-roofed dormers and a stack on the right. Each floor has three segmentally headed tripartite glazing bar sashes, and there is a panelled door to the centre right within a columned porch.

To the right, there is a later 18th-century wing that is two storeys high with a hipped slate roof. This wing features a two-storey canted bay with glazing bar sashes on the end elevation, and the re-entrant elevation has Venetian windows on each floor along with a glazed door in a 20th-century porch. There is also a taller, part weather-boarded wing from the late 19th century, which has a hipped slated roof, glazing bar sashes on the first floor, and casements on the ground floor.

At the rear right, a half-hipped and weather-boarded range is recessed, with a projecting half-hipped and framed wing and a gabled weather-boarded wing. This section includes a late 19th-century brick and weather-boarded range with corbelled stacks and glazing bar sashes.

Inside, the frame is visible, showcasing large scantling beams and large brick fireplaces, including one that is round-backed in header bond at the right end of the main range.