Building record TQ 55 NW 627 - Walthamstow Hall, Hollybush Lane, Sevenoaks

A purpose-built Girls School, designed by notable architect EC Robins, built to house the daughters of missionaries and completed in 1882. This huge and imposing building is built on three storeys with additional attic rooms of red brick with tile hanging to second floor, under a steep-pitched tiled roof with several gables, some jettied. Large brick chimney stacks with moulded heads and bases and round-headed arched openings between flues. Ground and first floors have ranges of tall, narrow sash windows with fanlights.The second floor has a mix of sash and casement windows. The entrance porch, on the south side, has a stone corbelled canopy over and supports a two-storey splayed bay window under gable.There are various additional buildings in the grounds. A detached two-storey residential lodge, adjacent to the entrance to Walthamstow Hall School, designed by EC Robins and built in 1882 of red brick with some decorative hung-tiling under a steeply-pitched tiled roof, part hipped. Timber casement windows and including in a ground floor bay window. Two brick chimneys with corbelling. A discrete modern extension behind entrance wall. Red brick gate piers, for main and side gates, with flat stone tops and fine wrought-iron gates. Lower walls to the sides of red brick on ragstone plinth, with dentilled brick string and half-round copings. Dating from 1882. (1)

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