Building record TQ 55 NW 572 - 32, Dartford Road, Sevenoaks

Detached villa, two-storey with attics. Yellow brick, with ragstone panels and hipped slate roof. Ground floor centre, a panelled entrance door with fanlights over, recessed under semi-circular arch and, to right, two tall narrow windows either side of a tall composite window/French doors, all under a pent slate-roofed veranda. Three sash windows with cambered heads above. To left a gabled wing with decorated barge boards and two-storey rectangular bay window, three windows at each level, the outer ones being narrower than the centre. At second floor in the gable two modern windows spoil the character. Called Egdean in 1941, now known as Berwick House. Believed to have once been a 'home for unmarried mothers' in Sevenoaks. Dr Arthur Carnarvon Brown (1876-1961) lived and practised in a large house 'Egdean' (now No. 32 Dartford Road) from 1914 to 1954. Brown was one of the founders of the Babies Welfare Clinic in 1914 and the first radiologist at Sevenoaks Hospital. (1)

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