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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1866

Summary from record TQ 64 NW 27 :

Lodge c.1820, enlarged mid C19. Former lodge to Hadlow Castle

Monument Types

• LODGE (Lodge, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1866 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HADLOW HIGH STREET (south side) TQ 63 49 7/81 South Lodge 20.10.54
GV II*
Former lodge to Hadlow Castle (q.v.). Circa 1820, probably by George Ledwell Taylor who designed Hadlow Castle (q.v.), enlarged in the mid C19. Cement- clad brick; brick stacks and chimneyshafts, those visible from the street are cement-clad and ornamental; slate roof.
Plan: Former lodge set back from the High Street. Along with the companion North Lodge it flanks the ornamental gateway to Hadlow Castle (q.v.). In fact it backs onto the street and faces south east. Main block has a 2-room plan with central entrance hall and stair. The right room (next to the gateway) has an axial stack backing onto the entrance hall and the left room has an end stack. A kitchen block projects forward at an oblique angle from the left end and has a rear lateral stack. Kitchen block rear end to the street where it is hidden by a brick curtain wall.
The present layout appears to be mostly the result of a mid C19 refurbishment. The original lodge was probably single storey with a 2-room plan, maybe even just a single room.
2 storeys with single storey kitchen block.
Exterior: Distinctive Gothick style, the same as Hadlow Castle. Irregular 3- window front of various C20 replacement casements. Central Tudor arch doorway contains C19 studded plank door. The first floor window to left in jettied and gabled porch-like bay. The right end bay is in the same Gothick style as right end and back (the public sides); it includes a projecting ground floor by with diagonal buttresses, embattled parapet and Tudor arch headed window.
The street front is very much a mirror image of the North Lodge, although here some of the detail is now (1988) hidden by ivy. The left bay (nearest the gateway) projects forward with panelled angle buttresses with weathered offsets. They rise to poppyhead finials. The front and left end sides include projecting bays with diagonal buttresses, embattled parapets and contain recessed Tudor arches which contain windows. The end window contains timber Y-tracery and the bay is flanked by narrow lancets, all containing small diamond panes of leaded glass. Above the bay a shield outline with flat hoodmould. Both sides have stepped parapets. To right of this room is a blind lancet (the cement render has fallen off here) and alongside a mid C19 bay window, also containg small diamond panes of leaded glass. Parapet hides the low pitch roof. At the right end an original ornamental chimneyshaft; tall, narrow and octagonal with a lattice pattern around the shaft, moulded cornice and embattled top. Only the moulded base remains of the other one.
The gap to the right between the South Lodge and Hadlow Bakery (q.v.) is filled with a tall brick curtain wall. It ramps up in a curve as it extends to right then down again as it returns forward.
Interior: Not inspected.
By circa 1900 this lodge was larger than its companion North Lodge (q.v.) and local people remember it as the chauffeur's cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ6332849712

Description from record TQ 64 NW 27 :
[TQ 63354972] South Lodge [NAT] (1) Former Lodge to Hadlow Castle (TQ 64 NW 14). Built c.1820, enlarged mid 19th century. (See also North Lodge - TQ 64 NW 29). HADLOW HIGH STREET (south side) South Lodge. Former lodge to Hadlow Castle (qv). Circa 1820, probably by George Ledwell Taylor who designed Hadlow Castle (qv), enlarged in the mid C19. [Full architectural reference] LISTED GRADE II*. (2)

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<1> OS 1:2500 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48214.

<2> DOE(HHR)Dist of Tonbridge and Malling Kent, 19th Feb 1990 65 (OS Card Reference). SKE41373.

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