Former Lodge to the Burrswood estate

East Lodge, Groombridge Road, Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, TN3 9PT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260889
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: Former Lodge to the Burrswood estate
Statutory Address:: East Lodge, Groombridge Road, Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, TN3 9PT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260889
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: Former Lodge to the Burrswood estate
Statutory Address 1:: East Lodge, Groombridge Road, Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, TN3 9PT

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: East Lodge, Groombridge Road, Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, TN3 9PT

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 52320 38552

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 June 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 53 NW 7/522

SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE ROAD East Lodge

(Formerly listed as STONE CROSS North Lodge)

II

Lodge to the Burrswood estate. Early/mid C19 with C20 rear additions. Local sandstone ashlar to the ground floor, first floor clad in imitation timber-framing; peg-tile roof; stack with stone ashlar shaft. Vernacular Revival style.

Plan: The lodge faces north on to the drive to Burrswood, the east elevation overlooking Groombridge Road. Single depth two-room plan with an axial stack and a projecting porch with a porch room over on the north side, forming an overall T-plan. Additions to the south.

Exterior: two storeys. Gabled roofs with deep eaves, bargeboards and carved apex finials and pendants C20 casements in original embrasures; the ground floor windows with chamfered reveals, the first floor windows shallow oriels with moulded sills. First floor jettied with moulded corner brackets, the framing treated decoratively with curved braces. Symmetrical three-bay front with an openwork timber porch with Tudor arched openings on stone footings. Partly-glazed two-light casement to the oriel over the porch, which is flanked by windows. The left (east) return has one first and one ground floor window.

Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ5232038552

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Legacy System number:: 439227
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.