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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 SW 207 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | ALMSHOUSES |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1432 to 1832
Summary from record TQ 55 SW 27 :
18th century almhouses (originally established 1432)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 53146 54151 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55SW |
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| Parish: | SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- ALMSHOUSE (ALMSHOUSE, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1432 AD to 1832 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1086007: ALMSHOUSES |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HIGH STREET 1. 1614 (East Side) Almshouses TQ 5354/1/1 l3.4.5l II* GV 2. These consist of 2 buildings of similar design bordering the High Street on either side of the centre school courtyard. Symmetrical 7.1.7. facade of 2 storeys with centre 3-storey pedimented feature (slightly projecting). Built of coursed local ashlar stone blocks with flint infilling to mortar joints and matching the centre school block. Modern ashlar dressing to recessed alcoves. Continuous projecting stone plinth, carried across in front of school yard as low screen wall, surmounted by early C19 cast iron railings. Moulded wooden eaves and gutter. Ridge Welsh slate roof with both ends hipped. Centre pedimented feature with rusticated stone archway with heavy C18 cast iron gates. Small square casement window over centre archway. Projecting double stone band above in line with eaves of supporting wings. Circular boarded window with square moulded stone surround in centre beneath pediment. Centre pediment with painted wooden modillioned entablature and raking cornice. Painted wooden mullioned and transomed casements. Recessed round-headed stone alcoves in centre of 7-window facade on both floors. Side elevation of both almshouse blocks facing inwards towards school courtyard with recessed tripartite "Palladian Motif" panels on ground floor and square projecting stone panel above. 6 stone chimney stacks symmetrically placed to both almshouse blocks.
Sevenoaks School and Almshouses form a group (This does not include the modern school buildings to the rear).
Listing NGR: TQ5314654151
Description from record TQ 55 SW 27 :
(TQ 5315 5422) Almshouse [NAT] (TQ 5314 54150 Almshouse [NAT]. (1) Two buildings, forming two storey, symmetrical facade built of carved local ashlar stone, fronting the High Street on either of a courtyard in front of the Sevenoaks School [TQ 55 SW 13]. Part of a group including the school, almshouses, connecting screen walls and arch dating from 1724-32. (2-3)
<1> OS 1:2500 1966 (OS Card Reference). SKE48208.
<2> DOE (HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks UD Kent 1972 (9-10) (OS Card Reference). SKE40334.
<3> Newman J 1980 Bldgs of England. West Kent and the Weald (512) (OS Card Reference). SKE47536.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1966. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks UD Kent 1972 (9-10). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Newman J 1980 Bldgs of England. West Kent and the Weald (512). |
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