LODGE AT THE ENTRANCE TO SACKVILLE SCHOOL

LODGE AT THE ENTRANCE TO SACKVILLE SCHOOL, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248171
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:: LODGE AT THE ENTRANCE TO SACKVILLE SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: LODGE AT THE ENTRANCE TO SACKVILLE SCHOOL, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248171
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:: LODGE AT THE ENTRANCE TO SACKVILLE SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: LODGE AT THE ENTRANCE TO SACKVILLE SCHOOL, LONDON 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:: LODGE AT THE ENTRANCE TO SACKVILLE SCHOOL, LONDON ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
Parish:: Hildenborough
National Grid Reference:: TQ 56475 48785

Details

TQ 54 NE 5/142

HILDENBOROUGH LONDON ROAD (south west side) Lodge at the entrance to Sackville School

GV II

Lodge at the entrance to a former country house, called Foxbush, now Sackville School. Probably 1866, contemporary with the house and designed by its architect, G. Somers Clarke. Flemish bond brick with blue diapering, tile- hung gables with bands of scalloped tiles; peg-tile roof; brick stack. Vernacular Revival style.

Plan: Sited at the main entrance to Sackville School, overlooking the drive. Overall L plan with a porch filling the angle between the 2 blocks; stack at the junction between the 2 blocks.

Exterior: Single storey and attic. Gabled roof; stack with impressive row of tall shafts with corbelled brick cornices. Asymmetrical 2-window north east front, overlooking London Road, with a jettied gable to the left with a pendant, a 5-light attic window and 1 1-light and 1 2-light ground floor casement, the 2-light window with a chamfered stone mullion. To the right the pyramidal porch roof is supported on brackets on timber posts, with moulded capitals. Plank front door with strap hinges. The right return gable is coved out, the coving with painted decoration, with a transomed 4-light bay window to the ground floor. The attic storey of the rear elevation is jettied and tile-hung. One first and one ground floor 3-light window, the ground floor window with a high transom.

Interior: Not inspected.

A nicely-detailed building Group Value with Sackville School and listed buildings on the London Road.

Listing NGR: TQ5647548785

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Legacy System number:: 179578
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.