The Lodge
THE LODGE, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067568
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- THE LODGE, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067568
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LODGE, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE LODGE, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Speldhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 52979 37662
Details
TQ 53 37 SPELDHURST BIRD-IN-HAND STREET, OLD GROOMBRIDGE 16/447 The Lodge
GV II
Former lodge to Burrswood House. Circa 1838, heavily modernised in 1979 with large extensions. Coursed sandstone ashlar with some exposed timber framing; sandstone stack and chimneyshaft; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Now an L-plan house with its doorway into the new section and facing north. The old lodge is now the 2-room plan east wing and originally faced east towards Old Groombridge. Axial stack between the 2 rooms.
Single storey with attic rooms in the roofspace.
Exterior: Restrained Tudor style. 2-bay east front. All the windows are C20 casements without glazing bars. To left is a full height bay projecting a little from the main front and with the timber framed first floor section jettied even further forward and resting on exposed joists. The actual ground floor window is also broken forward from the centre of the bay. Window to right is blocking the original doorway. Gabled doorway above. Roof is gable- ended and the stone ashlar chimneyshaft is tall and Tudor style. Bay window in right gable end is made of reconstituted stone and dated 1979.
Interior: Not inspected.
Set back some distance up the drive to Burrswood House (q.v.) this C19 lodge has group value with the well-preserved village.
Listing NGR: TQ5297937662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438590
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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