Listed Building record TQ 53 NW 125 - NORTH LODGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TQ 5231 3855 (point)
Map sheet TQ53NW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish SPELDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE ROAD, STONE CROSS
7/522 North Lodge
II
Lodge to the Burrswood estate. Early/mid C19 with C20 rear additions. Local sandstone ashlar to the ground floor, first floor clad in imitation timber- framing; peg-tile roof; stack with stone ashlar shaft. Vernacular Revival style.
Plan: The lodge faces north on to the drive to Burrswood, the east elevation overlooking Groombridge Road. Single depth 2-room plan with an axial stack and a projecting porch with a porch room over on the north side, forming an overall T-plan. Additions to the south.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Gabled roofs with deep eaves, bargeboards and carved apex finials and pendants C20 casements in original embrasures; the ground floor windows with chamfered reveals, the first floor windows shallow oriels with moulded sills. First floor jettied with moulded corner brackets, the framing treated decoratively with curved braces. Symmetrical 3-bay front with an openwork timber porch with Tudor arched openings on stone footings. Partly-glazed 2-light casement to the oriel over the porch, which is flanked by windows. The left (east) return has one first and one ground floor window.
Interior: Not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ5232038552


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

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  • --- Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM