Building record TQ 55 SW 443 - Kippington Nursing Home, Grange Road, Sevenoaks

A detached house built in 1874 on land sold by William Thompson to his brother in law Henry Webb. Initially named as Oakfield Grange and subsequently renamed Kippington Grange in the early 1900s. It became a nursing home in the 1950s and was renamed Kippington Nursing Home. Large gabled mansion. Two storey with attics, in uncoursed ragstone with ashlar dressings, tiled roof, cruciform finials to gables. Moulded strings at first floor. A number of plain timber horned sash windows remain but there are many modern replacements. Interesting entrance porch on east side, three gothic arches (painted or rendered?) with round columns, heavy capitals and decorated tympanums. Buttresses to sides and pierced balustraded top. On west side a battlemented, double-height, five-light canted bay window, with 1874 date stone. (1)

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