Building record TQ 55 SW 458 - Building, Weald Road, Sevenoaks

An old gateway, beneath the Tonbridge Road, linking the Shenden Valley (once known as Shangden), now developed as a housing estate called Turners Gardens, with Knole Park. Earl Amhurst gave a small piece of land to enable the building of this small bridge, with arched gateway beneath wide enough to take a wagon. The original construction is of Kentish Ragstone, with stone chip pargetting between the dressed stones, to some six feet above ground level, with a single engineering brick course and a red brick archway above. The archway has been reinforced later with modern brick piers and concrete slabs over, and there are three wall ties. Access through the archway is restricted to pedestrians by a modern gate set in a brick wall. (1)

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