Building record TQ 55 NW 543 - Sevenoaks House, High Street, Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks House (formerly the Constitutional Club) was designed by the noted local architect Percy Potter and built in 1889. It is a long, almost triangular two-storey " other residential building " with hexagonal turret, surmounted by a timber lantern, on the corner where Dartford Rd and Seal Hollow Rd meet High St. It was used for Conservative social and political meetings and contained billiards, smoking and committee rooms and a refreshment bar. The Constitutional Club closed in 1957 and the building was turned into apartments in the late 1990s, with an extension in similar style added in 2002. It is red brick in English bond with lots of fine rubbed and moulded brick details, in a mix of Mannerist, Georgian and Victorian styles. The roof is of slate with flat-headed dormers. The facades are broken into panels with brick pilasters and moulded strings and cornices. Sash windows have single panes to lower half; upper sashes have glazing bars with large central pane and horizontally divded side panes. Typically the windows have rubbed brick headers with elongated keystones and moulded panels below. Main entrance bay on Seal Hollow Rd rises through three storeys. Wide panelled door with two vertical lights, divided fanlight above, under rubbed brick four-centred arch with moulded brick head and architraves. Moulded panel above, with 'Constitutional Club' inscription and small decorated pediment above first floor string. Round-headed window at first floor. At second floor a four-centred arched window with moulded cornice above, set within and breaking through a triangular pediment. (1)

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