Combe Bank
Radnor House Sevenoaks School, Combe Bank Drive, Sundridge, TN14 6AE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1243769
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Combe Bank
- Statutory Address:
- Radnor House Sevenoaks School, Combe Bank Drive, Sundridge, TN14 6AE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1243769
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Combe Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- Radnor House Sevenoaks School, Combe Bank Drive, Sundridge, TN14 6AE
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:
- Radnor House Sevenoaks School, Combe Bank Drive, Sundridge, TN14 6AE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sundridge with Ide Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 48044 55756
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 14/07/2020
TQ 4855
32/1259
SUNDRIDGE
Combe Bank Drive (West Side)
Radnor House Sevenoaks School
Combe Bank
(Formerly listed as Combe Bank (Convent of the Holy Child Jesus) Combe Bank Road (West Side))
10.9.54.
I
The original building, second quarter of C18 by Roger Morris. Five bay Palladian villa with two and a half-storey side bays, under low pyramidal roofs, two storey centre with balustraded parapet, pyramidal slated roof and central cupola. Sash windows with glazing bars in moulded architraves, those on ground floor rusticated, and with pediments in side bays. Rendered elevations with stone quoins and dressings. Ground floor porch and Ionic screen added by Norman Shaw circa 1900. Similar five bay left return. Pedimented projecting centre on garden front.
Inside several rooms of modest size retain complete original decorations; ie chimney pieces, panelling and enrichments to doors and windows; and coved ceilings with ornamental plaster work. Graceful wrought iron staircase in late C18 style.
House built for Col John Campbell, afterwards Duke of Argyle. The house was the childhood home of Cardinal Manning.
In 1879-1880 it was owned by Dr William Spottiswoode the President of the Royal Society, who had the saloon redecorated by Walter Crane as a library. Very rich, in bronze, silver and gold, with an early C17 Venetian frieze of putti. Fireplace signed and dated 1880, and all completely preserved. North addition of 1807 contains drawing room and ballroom (the latter now a chapel) with convincing Adam style decoration by Walter Cave. In 1883 William Spottiswoode died and for a while his son Hugh tenanted Combe Bank before selling it in 1906 to Ludwig Mond, a German-Jewish chemist and industrialist, who settled in England in 1862, where he became a prominent businessman, philanthropist and art collector. Mond, and his son Robert, who inherited in 1909, carried out extensive alterations to the gardens, and adapted the early C19 stable block as garaging for their motor vehicles and later as laboratories.
The house was adapted for use as a convent boarding and day school in the 1920s, and re-founded as an independent girls’ day school in 1973.
Listing NGR: TQ4803955747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 448051
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 24 Kent,
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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