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Latitude: 51.2168 / 51°13'0"N
Longitude: 0.2391 / 0°14'20"E
OS Eastings: 556475
OS Northings: 148786
OS Grid: TQ564487
Mapcode National: GBR MNS.M94
Mapcode Global: VHHQ0.3P81
Plus Code: 9F32668Q+PJ
Entry Name: Lodge at the Entrance to Sackville School
Listing Date: 19 February 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1248171
English Heritage Legacy ID: 179578
ID on this website: 101248171
Location: Hildenborough, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, TN11
County: Kent
District: Tonbridge and Malling
Civil Parish: Hildenborough
Built-Up Area: Tonbridge
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Hildenborough St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Gatehouse
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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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