Building record TQ 55 SW 388 - 69, High Street, Sevenoaks

A tall single story Neo-Georgian building, designed by Whinney Son and Austen Hall and built in 1922, with a mansard added in 1975, occupying a peninsula site at the junction of High Street and London Road. The building incorporates two elevational treatments, one predominantly brick, the other stone. The southern apex elevation, set on a curve, is of solid stone construction supported by substantial pilasters with the entrance to the banking premises set in a moulded architrave. A shallow ribbed string course on curve over the doorway with scroll bracket at centre. The plain stone entablature is topped by a prominent and moulded and dentilled stone cornice which in turn supports a "classical" stone balustrade either side of a raised stone base with moulded cornice above the doorway. The stone plinth band and stone cornicing continue around the frontages to High Street and London Road. The High Street elevation incorporates two styles, the southernmost section using mainly brick, the northernmost using stone. The former section has three six-pane windows, set in brick with rubbed brick headers and stone keystone and moulded cills. The stone plinth incorporates two shallow basement windows. The stone cornice supports a brick balustrade with stone coping and raised stone panels over the windows. The northernmost section has a further three six-pane windows, set in rusticated stone facade, to match the apex corner. The centre window features a projecting stone cill on brackets and stone projecting moulded cornice over. There are a further three basement windows. The ground floor elevation to London Road is similar, but has four windows in brickwork and one in rusticated stonework. The slate sided mansard roof, behind the balustrades, has timber windows to dormers which have flat lead roof and cheeks. The building is occupied by HSBC. (1)

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