EAGLE LODGE FIRS LODGE INCLUDING STABLES AT REAR

EAGLE LODGE, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244249
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: EAGLE LODGE FIRS LODGE INCLUDING STABLES AT REAR
Statutory Address:: EAGLE LODGE, MAIN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244249
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: EAGLE LODGE FIRS LODGE INCLUDING STABLES AT REAR
Statutory Address 1:: EAGLE LODGE, MAIN ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: FIRS LODGE INCLUDING STABLES AT REAR, MAIN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: EAGLE LODGE, MAIN ROAD
Statutory Address:: FIRS LODGE INCLUDING STABLES AT REAR, MAIN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:: Edenbridge
National Grid Reference:: TQ 43984 47797

Details

The following buildings shall be added to the list:

TQ 44 NW EDENBRIDGE MAIN ROAD (West Side) Marlpit Hill

48/1518 Eagle Lodge and Firs Lodge including stables at rear

- II

Pair of attached houses. Circa 1840. Red brick in Flemish bond with some blue headers and with stuccoed dressings; painted brick at rear. Low-pitched slate hipped roof with deep eaves and ornate brackets with pendants to the eaves of central block. Brick axial stacks.

Plan: Pair of attached houses of double depth plan, one the mirror image of the other; each with a central principal room at the front and back, a stairhall to the side and flanking service wing with a parlour and kitchen at the front and pantry, scullery etc. behind.

Exterior: 3 storeys and cellars plus 2 storey wings. Symmetrical 2:1:2:1:2 window bays. Main 3 storey 4 window block, the centre 2 windows advanced and porches in the angles of the recesses to left and right; plus 2 storey, 2 window flanking service wings slightly set back. All C19 sashes with glazing bars. Central block has bands at first and second floor window sill level, tripartite sashes on the ground floor in slightly projecting bays with cornices and 16-pane sashes above, all in moulded stucco architraves the first floor with cornices on console brackets; and smaller second floor 16-pane sashes. Stuccoed porches in angles to left and right, with entablatures, dentil cornices and square piers with wooden lattice screens at front and glazed and panelled doors behind. Inside the porches are vaulted ceilings. Flanking service wings have sashes complete with glazing bars.

Rear of main block has a symmetrical 4-window elevation; 12-pane sashes on first floor in moulded architraves and smaller 12 and 16-pane second floor sashes. Eagle Lodge to right has large late C19 conservatory on the back with ornate cast-iron cresting to the louvre.

Including 2 stable and coach house ranges at the rear, red brick with hipped slate roofs, 2 storeys, casement windows; that to Firs Lodge converted into a cottage.

Interior: Only that of Eagle Lodge inspected. It is complete with most of the original joinery and simple plasterwork, windows, panelled doors and window shutters etc. The hall has an open string staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail wreathed over a stylised lotus newl post; it rises to second floor with similar balustrade. The wall between hall and parlour has no plaster cornice but has a pretty painted Art Nouveau chimney piece with cloverleaf decoration and mantle shelf supported on small columns and a cast-iron grate with tiles. The front and rear righthand rooms have moulded plaster cornices and chimney pieces with console brackets and cast-iron grates. First floor also unaltered and has original joinery and chimney pieces with iron grates. Interior of Firs Lodge not inspected but apparently similar.

Listing NGR: TQ4398447797

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Legacy System number:: 449162
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.