Listed Building: SCOTNEY CASTLE LODGE (1336946)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1355, 9, 166 |
Date assigned | 10 October 1989 |
Date last amended |
Description
LAMBERHURST HASTINGS ROAD TQ 6635-6735 (north side) 9/166 Scotney Castle Lodge (North lodge) GV II
Gate Lodge. Circa 1840, designed for himself by Edward Hussey. Sandstone and ornamental tile hanging with plain tiled roof. Irregular L-shaped plan in picturesque Tudor style. Two storeys with hipped roof to right and projecting gabled wing to left with jettied first floor and pierced and moulded bargeboards with finial to gable, with identically styled semi-dormer gable to right. Large projecting and offset stone stack at end left with moulded brick flues and set with the Hussey Arms, and moulded stack to rear centre right. Two light wooden casement to right on first floor and to left in corbelled oriel, supported on ground floor by a buttress. Two light casement to right on ground floor with rib and stud door to centre under continuous pentice roof, with single light casements in cut away corners of projecting wing with elaborately moulded corbelled stonework over. Projecting wing in same style to rear right. Although the new house at Scotney to which this was the Gate Lodge was designed for Hussey by Anthony Salvin, C. Hussey in Country Life, Sept. 6th., 1956, states that Hussey designed the lodges hinself (see also South Lodge in Goudhurst C.P.).
Listing NGR: TQ6772435290
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TQ 6772 3528 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ63NE |
Civil Parish | LAMBERHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 5:21PM