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Latitude: 51.126 / 51°7'33"N
Longitude: 0.1753 / 0°10'31"E
OS Eastings: 552320
OS Northings: 138552
OS Grid: TQ523385
Mapcode National: GBR MPV.956
Mapcode Global: VHHQC.0Y1P
Plus Code: 9F3245GG+C4
Entry Name: Former Lodge to the Burrswood estate
Listing Date: 24 August 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1260889
English Heritage Legacy ID: 439227
ID on this website: 101260889
Location: Stone Cross, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Speldhurst
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Speldhurst St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Gatehouse
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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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