Building record TQ 55 NW 571 - 26, Dartford Road, Sevenoaks

Large detached house built around 1895 of somewhat eccentric design, two-storeys plus semi-basement and attics. Red and yellow brick with ragstone panels, hipped slate roof with deep plaster coving in seventeenth century manner. Symmetrical front, entrance steps leading up to elaborate two-storey central porch. Door with fanlight and side lights under timber porch with turned timber posts and side balustrades, decorative arch head; at first floor a m and t casement window on small brackets under plastered gable. Either side, a rectangular brick bay window at semi-basement and ground floor level with parapetted flat roof, two windows with brick divider under cambered fanlights and heads. At first floor, glazed doors opening onto roof of bays, flanked by narrow side windows. Windows appear to be original pattern. Originally called Fairfield and later Charlton House. (1)

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