Building record TQ 55 SW 378 - 96, High Street, Sevenoaks

no. 96 is a commercial building, built in 1938. Treble width frontage on three tall floors, extending approximately one floor above adjacent properties, in brick taken up as parapet with two levels of flat roof. On the first and second floor the metal casement windows have fanlights set in three vertical panels with cream matt glazed tiled surrounds as heads to first floor windows and cills to second floor windows. Vertical panels formed by four splayed brick piers are taken through both floors, the centre panel being wider than the others. The piers have simple brick bases and capitals and are capped overall by projecting coping in similar tiles and linked at base by string course sub-cill of brick-on-edge. Window panel feature surrounded by brick parapet with concrete coping and narrow brick panels each side. There are decorative diagonal brick panels between first and second floor windows. (1)

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