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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 54 SW 132 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | NORTH LODGE TO PENSHURST PLACE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1833 to 1866
Summary from record TQ 54 SW 85:
GII Listed 1840 Lodge. Two storey with a single storey front and north end projection.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 52544 44112 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ54SW |
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| Parish: | PENSHURST, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1833 AD to 1866 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1243271: NORTH LODGE TO PENSHURST PLACE |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST Penshurst Road (East Side)
North Lodge to Penshurst Place TQ 5244 22/849
II
2. Mid C19 building in Tudor style. High pitched tiled roof. Coursed freestone with parapet.2 storeys, 2 windows, with 1-storey, 1-window left extension. Projecting, 1-storey gabled centrepiece has chimney breast behind crowned by 3 tall brick stacks. Similar gabled treatment in left section and to porch at right. Stone mullioned windows under square hoodmoulds.
Listing NGR: TQ5254444112
Description from record TQ 54 SW 85:
Built in 1840 at the private entrance to Penshurst Place and is similar in style to Tapners and Alders. It is a two storey with a single storey front ans north end projection. The walls are of coursed ashlar stone with stone mulliones windows under square hood moulds, a parapet at the eaves and up to the gables. The bay window has a battlemented flat roof. The porch is gabled with an arch over the door. The plain tile roof has a decorated barge board to rear gable. The chimneys are of brick and stone and are hexagonal in shape. The windows have rectangular, leaded lights in metal frames with stone surrounds. The doors are of vertical boards.(1)
Additional Info(2)
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<1> Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document). SKE6946.
<2> Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document). SKE6947.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <1> | Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Cluttons. 1994. Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan. |
