Building record TQ 55 SW 375 - 80, High Street, Sevenoaks

No. 80 is a two storey commercial building built in 1931 in 'neo-classical' style with a single dormer in attic space. Main part of frontage, about three quarters of whole, designed symmetrically with first floor oversailing Redman's Place to right hand side to provide passageway to properties to the rear. Front elevation is in red/brown brickwork. The ground floor has two round headed windows with rectangular panes and fanlight over on each side of central double entrance doors with single row of panes and semi-circular fanlight over, matching adjacent windows, and all in white painted surround and transom under fanlights. the windows have high level cills and doors set in a slightly recessed shallow alcove, edged with matching brick-on-edge and stone keystone. There are white painted kerbs to the facade of varying depths to suit pavement falls. there is a lintel to side passageway faced with brick-on-edge with stone keystone. The first floor has three symmetrically placed sash windows with bars intact in moulded frames over ground floor doors and windows. The windows have flat arches of rubbed headers with stone keystone. there is a similarly detailed window centrally over the passageway on the right/south side. The roof is steeply pitched in plain tiles and the ridge with the central section has been brought forward from the main roof and is hipped on both sides. Main roof hipped to south only, roof to north abuts adjacent property. Single small dormer central on main facade with sash window, moulded frame and eaves and curved pediment in front. Main roof has moulded and modillioned cornice, concealed gutters with two downpipes at south end. (1)

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