Building record TQ 55 SW 380 - 108, High Street, Sevenoaks

No. 108 is a commercial building built between 1800 and 1850. It underwent a major rebuild in 1982/3. The ground floor is a modern shop front. The first floor has three closely spaced composite sash windows with single pane below and upper half divided vertically and horizontally in two. The windows are divided in centre by stone piers and brick pilasters each side and capped by stone lintel and string course through upper window panes. Stone cills. Plain brick panel on each side of windows recessed from face of windows and pilasters at each end of elevation. Pilasters lightened by brick on end recesses every fourth course. The second floor also has three closely spaced composite sash windows. Here they are framed with brick pilasters and terracotta arch lintels with keystones and stone capitals at base of arches and moulded stone string course and cills. Windows are in white painted timber with upper leaf divided into two and to suit arches. Swag style terracotta in panels set in plain brickwork below windows and moulded string course in brick/terracotta across full width under windows. Central window panels capped by moulded terracotta pediment with chequer-board pattern in brickwork within and small brick piers at each side capped by stone coping and finial. Brick pilasters at each end of elevation, narrower than on first floor, picking up line of stone moulded string courses of central panels. Lower part of pilasters plain, upper parts having terracotta decorative feature in centre and capped by small stone pediment. Roof is of slate tiles finished in central glazed lantern capped with decorative coping and terminal finials at each end. Roof largely concealed from ground level by stone capped brick parapet, raised from side panels of main elevation. Brick chimneys with single flue at each end of main elevation. (1)

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