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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 NE 117 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | COURT LODGE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899. Court Lodge 14th c aisled hall house
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5904 6698 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56NE |
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| Parish: | FAWKHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1310 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
FAWKHAM VALLEY ROAD 1. 5280 (north-west side) Court Lodge TQ 56 NE 3/150 1.6.67
II
2. C16, C18 and C19. The central section dates from the C16 and was built by the Walters family. It is timber-framed and was refaced in brick in the mid C18 with a stringcourse concealing the overhang and the end portions added by Richard Allen. Two storeys red brick. Tiled roof 5 windows. The central section has 3 casement windows. The end portions are of higher elevation with hipped roofs and each have a sash window with glazing bars intact. Small porch with pediment over. C19 bay of 3 windows on the ground floor to the south of it. Listing NGR: TQ5880866686 (1)
Description from record TQ 56 NE 71 :
[TQ 5904 6699] Court Lodge [NAT] (2) Court Lodge, Valley Road (NW side), Fawkham. Grade II. C16, C18 and C19. The central section dates from the C16 and was built by the Walters family. It is timber-framed and was refaced in brick in the mid C18 with a stringcourse concealing the overhang and the end portions added by Richard Allen. Two storeys red brick. Tiled roof 5 windows. The central section has 3 casement windows. The end portions are of higher elevation with hipped roofs and each have a sash window with glazing bars intact. Small porch with pediment over. C19 bay of 3windows on the ground floor to the S of it. (3) Court Lodge. Archaeologically much more interesting than it looks. Thelow centre part has an early C14th timber roof structure, including anexceptionally early crown-post. (4) A C14th aisled hall house has been discovered within the C18th and C19th shell of Court Lodge, Fawkham; the surviving features will be preserved within the building which is undergoing extensive restoration. (5)
Timber framed house with fragmentary remains of an aisled hall with a formerly open bay and a passage bay. Most of the upper end of the hall and everything beyond has been demolished and replaced. There were many extensions and alterations from the 17th to the 20th century. (6)
Historic England archive material (7)
Historic England, Archive material associated with Court Lodge, Fawkham, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57205.
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> OS 1:10000 1984 (OS Card Reference). SKE48170.
<3> DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoakls Kent 1982 56 (OS Card Reference). SKE40986.
<4> The Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 285 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE50141.
<5> Arch Cant 87 1972 238 (RAC Cockett) (OS Card Reference). SKE35910.
<6> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Court Lodge, Fawkham, Listed Building. |
| <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:10000 1984. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoakls Kent 1982 56. |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: The Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 285 (J Newman). |
| <5>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 87 1972 238 (RAC Cockett). [Mapped feature: #30358 building, ] |
| <6> | Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent. |
