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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 - 1500 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)
<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.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <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, ] |
