Listed Building record TQ 54 NE 153 - LODGE AT THE ENTRANCE TO SACKVILLE SCHOOL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1866 to 1866

Location

Grid reference TQ 5647 4878 (point)
Map sheet TQ54NE
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish HILDENBOROUGH, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HILDENBOROUGH LONDON ROAD (south west side) TQ 54 NE 5/142 Lodge at the entrance to - Sackville School GV II
Lodge at the entrance to a former country house, called Foxbush, now Sackville School. Probably 1866, contemporary with the house and designed by its architect, G. Somers Clarke. Flemish bond brick with blue diapering, tile- hung gables with bands of scalloped tiles; peg-tile roof; brick stack. Vernacular Revival style.
Plan: Sited at the main entrance to Sackville School, overlooking the drive. Overall L plan with a porch filling the angle between the 2 blocks; stack at the junction between the 2 blocks.
Exterior: Single storey and attic. Gabled roof; stack with impressive row of tall shafts with corbelled brick cornices. Asymmetrical 2-window north east front, overlooking London Road, with a jettied gable to the left with a pendant, a 5-light attic window and 1 1-light and 1 2-light ground floor casement, the 2-light window with a chamfered stone mullion. To the right the pyramidal porch roof is supported on brackets on timber posts, with moulded capitals. Plank front door with strap hinges. The right return gable is coved out, the coving with painted decoration, with a transomed 4-light bay window to the ground floor. The attic storey of the rear elevation is jettied and tile-hung. One first and one ground floor 3-light window, the ground floor window with a high transom.
Interior: Not inspected.
A nicely-detailed building Group Value with Sackville School and listed buildings on the London Road.
Listing NGR: TQ5633848693


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM