TQ 54 SW BIDBOROUGH PENSHURST ROAD (south side) 3/26 Stable block at Swaylands School GV II Stable block, converted to housing. Circa 1880s, contemporary with the lodge (q.v.). Local sandstone, brought to course; concrete tile roof; stacks with brick shafts. Tudor style. Plan: 3 and a half ranges round a courtyard, the east range probably used for grooms' or servants' accommodation. Exterior: Single-storye and attic. The style matches the lodge with coped gables and gabled dormers with copings and kneelers. Asymmetrical 9-window east front with gables to left and right and 2 gabled dormers with 4 attic dormers with flat tops. C20 porch to right of centre with a hipped roof. Various one-, 2- and 3-light casements, mostly with their original glazing with small panes, some with replaced glazing. Clock on ridge, probably with a missing cupola. Chimney-shaft is right of centre with clustered shafts with a batter and corbelled brick coping. The elevations facing the courtyard continue in the same style with gabled and attic dormers and small-pane windows. The 4-bay north range has a chamfered Tudor arched doorway to the right (west). Similar doorway in the 5-bay west range. The south range is shorter with an entrance to the yard on the south side. Interior: Not inspected. Group value with Swaylands School, separately listed in Penshurst parish. Listing NGR: TQ5615543382