Building record TQ 55 SW 351 - 67, 67a, 67b, 67c, London Road, Sevenoaks

Originally two late 19th century warehouse buildings on three floors in yellow stock and off-white bricks with string courses at head and cills of windows carried round to blank north elevation. Steep-pitched slate roof with brick corbelling to gutter. Single gables at roof level over centre of No. 67 and between Nos. 67b and 67c with hoist doors below and circular brick window over the latter. Nos. 67, 67b and 67c retain elegant cast iron shop fronts with cast iron ventilation grilles and all retain marble pilasters with Ionic capitals. Nos. 67, 67a and 67c retain ornamental brackets at each end of fascias. No. 67 has three sash windows at first floor level with cambered brick arches and two small sash windows either side of the hoist door. Cast iron hoist arm survives. Nos. 67a, 67b and 67c retain small sash windows at second floor level but large modern windows have been inserted at first floor level. All sash windows now replacement plastic. The entrance to Nos. 67b - 67C (in 2014 Sevenoaks Boutique and Pressed for Time respectively), has an ornamental mosaic floors at the entrance showing entwined initials FHB (for F.H. Bowlers) in the style of the late nineteenth century. (1)

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