Building record TQ 55 NW 443 - The Old Library, The Drive, Sevenoaks

Architect Edwyn Evans Cronk of Pall Mall and Sevenoaks. Eclectic design, Jacobean in flavour with borrowings from 17c and later. Two storey, in red brick with stone dressings. Street front ground floor has two mullioned and transomed four-light windows in stone. Central stone pilaster with foliate capital supports the base of large mullioned and transomed, canted oriel window with ogee lead roof at first floor. Head and base of oriel have moulded stone cornices which extend across the front as cornice and plat band. Above is double-stepped scrolled gable with finial and shield in centre with seven acorn (Sevenoaks) motif. Entrance bay on west side with semicircular gable and circular stone decorative feature. Ogee lead roof over with elaborate weather vane. Mullioned and transomed window to first floor. Recessed double entrance doors, top half glazed; elaborate stone surround; round columns with foliate capitals support simple stone brackets topped by scrolled, rounded broken pediment with ball finial. Inside is plaque commemorating the generosity of both benefactors and some good stained glass. (1)

<1> Sevenoaks District Council, Sevenoaks District Council Local List of Heritage Assets (Index). SKE53505.