Listed Building record TQ 64 SW 102 - THE LODGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1833 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TQ 6252 4083 (point)
Map sheet TQ64SW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish PEMBURY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 62 40 PEMBURY THE GREEN, PEMBURY
13/358 No 7, The Lodge
GV II
House. Mid C19 with some C20 modernisation. Stucco probably on brick; brick stacks with plastered chimneyshafts with acroteria-like crests; slate roof.
Plan: Double depth plan house facing south east onto The Green. Front and back room either side of central entrance hall and main stair. The rooms have end stacks, the left front one projecting. Roof over front section is higher than that over the rear.
2 storeys.
Exterior: Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front of timber mullion-and- transom casements with margin panes and moulded stucco architraves. Ground floor left is a French window in the same style and right bay breaks forward with a full height tripartite window. Central doorway up 4 stone steps contains a part-glazed 12-panel door with a doorcase of flat pilasters with a moulded entablature. Moulded eaves cornice and tall parapet hiding the low pitch roof.
Interior: Not inspected but is believed to include original joinery and other detail.
The Lodge is one of 3 large detached C19 houses on the north west side of The Green. It was once used as Mr Ditmars School for the sons of Gentlemen.
Source Mary Standen. Pembury in the Past (1984), p.16.
Listing NGR: TQ6252740838


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