Lodge to Swaylands School
LODGE TO SWAYLANDS SCHOOL, PENSHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248953
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge to Swaylands School
- Statutory Address:
- LODGE TO SWAYLANDS SCHOOL, PENSHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248953
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge to Swaylands School
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGE TO SWAYLANDS SCHOOL, PENSHURST ROAD
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:
- LODGE TO SWAYLANDS SCHOOL, PENSHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bidborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 53435 43166
Details
TQ 54 SW BIDBOROUGH PENSHURST ROAD (south side)
3/24 Lodge to Swaylands School
GV II
Lodge to Swaylands School, contemporary with the stable block. The main school is separately listed in Penshurst parish. Circa 1880s. Local sandstone ashlar; concrete tile roof; stack with brick shafts. Tudor style.
Plan: Sited at the entrance to Swaylands School, facing west where the principal room overlooks the drive, service wing at right angles to the rear. Porch block to the north west, front door in the west wall.
Exterior: Single-storye and attic. Asymmetrical 1:3-bay west front, the single-storey porch block, slightly set back to the left, has an embattled parapet and a Tudor arched chamfered doorway with a C19 plank and cover strip door. The left return of the porch has 3 round-headed one-light windows. The main block, to the right, has a ground floor bay with an embattled parapet, the windows with C20 glazing replacing the original small-pane casements. Above this, 2 gabled dormers with kneelers and copings, preserving their original small-pane casements. The left (north) return of the main block, facing the Penshurst Road, has a coped gable to the right with an original 2- light window and a gabled dormer to the left, also with an original window, matching those in the west elevation.
Interior: Not inspected.
Group value with Swaylands School.
Listing NGR: TQ5615543382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430784
- 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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