Listed Building record TQ 63 NE 113 - SCOTNEY CASTLE LODGE
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 6772 3529 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ63NE |
District | TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
Civil Parish | LAMBERHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Full Description
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LAMBERHURST HASTINGS ROAD TQ 6635-6735 (north side) 9/166 Scotney Castle Lodge (North lodge) GV II
Gate Lodge. Circa 1840, designed for himself by Edward Hussey. Sandstone and ornamental tile hanging with plain tiled roof. Irregular L-shaped plan in picturesque Tudor style. Two storeys with hipped roof to right and projecting gabled wing to left with jettied first floor and pierced and moulded bargeboards with finial to gable, with identically styled semi-dormer gable to right. Large projecting and offset stone stack at end left with moulded brick flues and set with the Hussey Arms, and moulded stack to rear centre right. Two light wooden casement to right on first floor and to left in corbelled oriel, supported on ground floor by a buttress. Two light casement to right on ground floor with rib and stud door to centre under continuous pentice roof, with single light casements in cut away corners of projecting wing with elaborately moulded corbelled stonework over. Projecting wing in same style to rear right. Although the new house at Scotney to which this was the Gate Lodge was designed for Hussey by Anthony Salvin, C. Hussey in Country Life, Sept. 6th., 1956, states that Hussey designed the lodges hinself (see also South Lodge in Goudhurst C.P.).
Listing NGR: TQ6772435290
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Related Events/Activities (1)
- Non-Intrusive Event: Desk based assessment at Western Lodge of Scotney Castle (EKE20755)
Record last edited
May 26 2021 2:52PM