Top Lodge Including Front Boundary Fence
TOP LODGE INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY FENCE, CASTLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262887
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Top Lodge Including Front Boundary Fence
- Statutory Address:
- TOP LODGE INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY FENCE, CASTLE HILL
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- Date:
- 1999-08-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/00716/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262887
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Top Lodge Including Front Boundary Fence
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOP LODGE INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY FENCE, CASTLE HILL
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:
- TOP LODGE INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY FENCE, CASTLE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Capel
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ6079544228
Details
TQ 64 SW
5/219
CAPEL
CASTLE HILL, SOMERHILL PARK
Top Lodge including front boundary fence
II
Lodge to Somerhill Park. Circa 1880. Ground floor level is coursed sandstone
ashlar, exposed timber-framing above; brick stack with tall diagonally-set
brick chimneyshafts; red tile roof.
Plan: Uneven T-plan house. Main block faces east onto the drive to Somerhill
(q.v.). It has an entrance hall with the stair to right behind a 2-storey
porch and room to left has rear lateral stack which also serves one-room plan
kitchen to rear.
2 storeys with single storey kitchen block.
Exterior: Tudor style. Irregular 1:1-window front. Doorway to right has a
Tudor arch and contains a plain plank door. It is behind a 2 storey porch.
It is open at ground floor level supported on plain posts with Tudor arch.
Room above is jettied and gabled and contains a mullioned canted bay window
with a solid moulded sill. To left the ground floor room has a 3-light
window. The original windows contain rectangular panes of leaded glass and
iron-framed casements. First floor is jettied but contains no window; slender
framing with straight tension braces. Roof is gable-ended and all gables have
original cusped bargeboards. Left (south) is also jettied and the first floor
window is another canted bay like that in the front porch.
Interior: Not inspected.
Narrow front garden is still fenced by original timber railings.
Top Lodge is one of a number of good late C19 buildings built by the Goldsmid
family on the Somerhill Estate.
Listing NGR: TQ6079544228
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433865
- 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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