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The Queen's Hotel

A Grade II Listed Building in Hawkhurst, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.0475 / 51°2'51"N

Longitude: 0.5134 / 0°30'48"E

OS Eastings: 576271

OS Northings: 130580

OS Grid: TQ762305

Mapcode National: GBR PTX.BLZ

Mapcode Global: FRA C6YB.ZTN

Plus Code: 9F322GX7+28

Entry Name: The Queen's Hotel

Listing Date: 9 June 1952

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1123743

English Heritage Legacy ID: 169754

ID on this website: 101123743

Location: Highgate, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN18

County: Kent

District: Tunbridge Wells

Civil Parish: Hawkhurst

Built-Up Area: Hawkhurst

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


HAWKHURST RYE ROAD
TQ 7630-7730 (north side)

Highgate
17/404 The Queen's Hotel
9.6.52
GV II
Hotel and public house. C16, altered and extended C17 to c.1900. Timber framed
and clad and extended with red and blue chamfered brick, with weather-boarded
return wings, and some exposed frame with plaster infill to rear. Plain tiled
and slate roofs. Main range of 2 storeys and attic with plinth and
discontinuous brick eaves cornice to half-hipped roof with four flat roofed dormers and stack to right. Three segmentally headed tripartite glazing bar sashes to each floor, and panelled door to centre right in columned porch. Projecting to right a later C18 wing, of 2 storeys with hipped slate roof,
with 2-storey canted bay with glazing bar sashes on end elevation, re-entrant elevation with Venetian windows on each floor and glazed door in C20 porch. Taller, part weather-boarded late C19 wing to right, with hipped slated roof, glazing bar sashes on first floor and casements on ground floor. Half-hipped
and weather-boarded range recessed to rear right: projecting from rear of
this block a half-hipped and framed wing, and gabled weather-boarded wing,
with late C19 brick and weather-boarded range with corbelled stacks and
glazing bar sashes.
Interior: frame visible with large scantling beams. Large brick fireplaces,
that to right end of main range round-backed in Header bond.


Listing NGR: TQ7627130579

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