Building record TQ 55 NW 447 - The Red House, 23 Bayham Road, Sevenoaks

Very fine detached, four-square house in Queen Anne style, two-storey with attics. Built around 1909. Red brick with raised brick quoins and moulded plat band at first floor level. Steep-pitched tiled roof with ornate moulded and dentilled eaves cornice. Main front to Serpentine Road, symmetrical, four windows wide, 6 over 6 pane tall timber sashes with flush frames under flat rubbed brick heads with raised keystones. Large centre triangular moulded and dentilled pediment on small brackets with swag decoration in tympanum. Pair of hipped roof dormers with leaded casements. Bayham Road elevation has prominent brick chimney stacks rising into gables at roof level, either side of a pair of sash windows with shutters, entrance under pent-roofed porch at ground floor and leaded casement dormer window. (1)

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