Building record TQ 55 SW 334 - 6,8,10,12,14, Bank Street, Sevenoaks

Summary

Commercial building. Main construction : 1840 to 1899. Designated a Locally Listed Building by Sevenoaks District Council

Location

Grid reference TQ 5301 5471 (point)
Map sheet TQ55SW
County KENT
Civil Parish SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT
District SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Full Description

This group of buildings built in the mid 19th century consists of a former Methodist chapel, school and accommodation for ministers and teachers. The clergy house and southern part of the chapel return on Dorset Street (see asset record 10183). The school hall and accommodation (numbers 6,8,10) comprise a two-storey rustic ragstone building under hipped tiled roof. Ground floor, two modern shop fronts have been inserted but original pointed arch doorway with stone surround survives at left. First floor, five pairs of lancet windows in rendered surrounds. Quoins in the school hall are of rendered brick. The section of the Methodist complex occupied by 12 and 14 comprises the north end of former chapel, with shop fronts inserted on east side. Ragstone rubble with steep-pitched tiled roof. North gabled elevation has slightly projecting wide central bay with three lancet windows, the centre one higher, with a quatrefoil window high above. Smaller lancet window to right of bay survives, that to left removed for shop front return. An old photograph shows that a modestly projecting arched doorway and lancet window have been removed from the original structure to accommodate the shop front. The Methodist complex is noted in The Kent Historic Buildings Index, 1998 as being of 'Local interest' Also feature in Sevenoaks District Council's draft Local List of 2001. (1)


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

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  • <1> Index: Sevenoaks District Council. Sevenoaks District Council Local List of Heritage Assets.

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Record last edited

Sep 12 2020 1:19PM