Listed Building: NORTH LODGE (1260889)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1356, 7, 522
Date assigned 24 August 1990
Date last amended

Description

TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE ROAD, STONE CROSS 7/522 North Lodge II Lodge to the Burrswood estate. Early/mid C19 with C20 rear additions. Local sandstone ashlar to the ground floor, first floor clad in imitation timber- framing; peg-tile roof; stack with stone ashlar shaft. Vernacular Revival style. Plan: The lodge faces north on to the drive to Burrswood, the east elevation overlooking Groombridge Road. Single depth 2-room plan with an axial stack and a projecting porch with a porch room over on the north side, forming an overall T-plan. Additions to the south. Exterior: 2 storeys. Gabled roofs with deep eaves, bargeboards and carved apex finials and pendants C20 casements in original embrasures; the ground floor windows with chamfered reveals, the first floor windows shallow oriels with moulded sills. First floor jettied with moulded corner brackets, the framing treated decoratively with curved braces. Symmetrical 3-bay front with an openwork timber porch with Tudor arched openings on stone footings. Partly-glazed 2-light casement to the oriel over the porch, which is flanked by windows. The left (east) return has one first and one ground floor window. Interior: Not inspected. Listing NGR: TQ5232038552

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Sources (1)

  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5231 3855 (point)
Map sheet TQ53NW
Civil Parish SPELDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM