Building record TQ 55 NW 542 - The Old Court House, 168-170 High Street, Sevenoaks

no. 168-170 (The Old Court House) is a two storey " other residential building" built in 1864. Originally it housed an enquiry office, administrative office and police cells, but was decommissioned in 1972. Now it is flats. It is in yellow stock brick, Flemish bond, with red brick details and slate rooves. Central part has rendered ground floor and tripartite windows with centre-pivoting upper panes and central entrance porch with shallow flat canopy. Stone 'Police Station' plaques under eaves soffit. Projecting square wings with hipped slate rooves and single storey flat roofed side entries with recessed doors, plain surrounds and shallow canopies. Tripartite sash windows. Ground floor windows under cambered rubbed brick heads. Red brick quoins and window surrounds and continuous moulded string course at first floor level. Octagonal sloping ridge lantern with lead roof. The building was restored and converted to residential units in the late 1990s by Portland Homes. Ragstone boundary wall with ragstone piers and modern cast iron railings. (1)

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