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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26416841

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)