Listed Building: HEVER LODGE (1266216)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 883, 9, 388 |
Date assigned | 04 August 1988 |
Date last amended |
Description
MAIDSTONE REGINALD ROAD TQ75NE 9/388 Hever Lodge II
House. Dated 1851.Buff-coloured stock brick with red brick dressings. Steeply pitched fishscale slate roof with moulded terracotta crow-stepped gable ends. Stock brick gable end stacks with red brick dressings, the shafts rising from corbels at lower level.
Plan. Asymmetrical plan with 2 principal front rooms with a 3-storey porch between.The larger room to the right has a wing behind with a 2-storey loggia on its outer right hand side and a stair turret in the angle on the left side. The back doorway is through a 2-storey porch on the left side of the rear wing adjacent to the stair turret. Tudor Gothic style.
Exterior: 2-storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 3-bay west front with a doorway to the left of centre in a tall narrow 3-storey porch with a crow-stepped gable. 4 centred brick arch with a hoodmould, crenellation above and diagonal buttresses at the base. To the right a similar but wider crow-stepped gable and canted stone bay window on the ground floor, 3-light window on the first floor and 2- light attic window. To the left of the porch a shallow projecting bay on the ground floor with a hoodmould over a 2-light window and a 2-light first floor window above. All the windows on the front have moulded red brick 4-centred arch lights, hoodmoulds and casements.
The right hand (south) side the shaft of the gable end stack rises from the first floor level on corbels. The shaft is flanked by small attic lancets with diamond panes, but the windows below are C20 casements. The rear wing to the right has a 2-bay loggia on ground and first floors, gabled above and with 4- centred brick arches with buttresses between and on the corner. The ground floor loggia has been infilled with C20 glazing.
The left handside has an octagonal crenellated stair turret in the angle with the rear wing and a 2-storey porch to the left with a corbelled parapet and an arched doorway with a crow-stepped gable above. Over the doorway a tablet inscribed "I.L.[said to be Isaac Lawrence] 1851". The north gable end of the front range to the right has small lancet stair windows on its left hand corner, 2-light attic window to the left of the thin shaft of the stack.
Interior not inspected. It has been divided into flats but might have features of interest including a newel staircase in the turret.
Listing NGR: TQ7526855180
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TQ 7526 5518 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ75NE |
Civil Parish | MAIDSTONE, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 1:22PM