Building record TQ 55 NW 497 - 78 and 80, Mount Harry Road, Sevenoaks
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Location
Grid reference | TQ 5262 5579 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ55NW |
County | KENT |
Civil Parish | SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
District | SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Now a pair of semi-detached Victorian cottages, they were once part of the Woodlands’ estate built in 1873 and designed by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson. Two storey with vertical tile hanging with decorative scalloped tiles to first floor above painted brickwork. "Tudor style" half timbered projecting gables on carved timber support brackets above first floor ribbon windows. One of the gables to no. 78 has been removed and replaced with an insensitive tile hung parapetted flat roof structure. The arch headed window adjacent to the party wall line to no. 80 suggests that the cottages may once have had paired front doors in arched openings either side of the party wall line now replaced by a later lean-to porch on the front elevation in the case of no. 78 and a hipped roof extension to the side of no. 80, which also now has a large infill single storey addition located between the main front elevation and the projecting front gable which detracts from the overall composition. Both cottages retain retain their original tall decorative chimney stacks which lend character. No. 80 also retains a large decorative finial ventilator to the right of the gable roof which suggests this portion of the building may once have been the former stables for the Woodlands Estate. The windows are replacement pvc. The cottages form an attractive grouping although the setting is adversely affected by the group of outbuildings and green houses on the party wall line to the front of the plot. (1)
<1> Sevenoaks District Council, Sevenoaks District Council Local List of Heritage Assets (Index). SKE53505.
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- <1> SKE53505 Index: Sevenoaks District Council. Sevenoaks District Council Local List of Heritage Assets.
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Record last edited
Sep 12 2020 1:19PM