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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1999

Summary from record TQ 64 NW 29 :

Lodge c.1820. Former Lodge to Hadlow Castle

Monument Types

• LODGE (Lodge, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1800 AD to 1999 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 7/83 North 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.), with mid C19 and C20 alterations. Cement-clad brick; brick stack and chimneyshaft, the one visible from the street is cement-clad and ornamental; slate roof.
Plan: Former lodge set back from the High Street. Along with the companion South Lodge (q.v.) it flanks the ornamental gateway to Hadlow Castle (q.v.). In fact it backs onto the street and faces south east. It has a 2-room plan and 2-room plan wing projecting forward from the right (north east) end. Second room is C20 and first room is probably a C19 extension. The left room (nearest the gateway) has an axial stack backing onto the right room. C20 entrance porch in angle of the 2 wings.
The original part is the main block and maybe the original lodge was the one room next to the gateway.
Single storey.
Exterior: Distinct Gothick style, the same as Hadlow Castle. Main block garden front is hidden behind C20 porch extension. The service wing has C20 casements. The street side and end wall are ornamental and Gothick. The right (south western) room projects towards the street. It has narrow panelled angle buttresses with weathered offsets. They rise as corner finials but the tops have broken off. Both sides have a stepped crenellated parapet and contain a central projecting bay with diagonal buttresses, embattled parapet and recessed Tudor arch containing a window. The end window contains -tracery and C20 replacement diamond panes of leaded glass. Tall lancets either side contain similar glass. Above the bay a shield-shaped plaque. The street side is similar but here the window tracery has been removed and the lancets are blind. To left 2 lancet windows with glazing bars with buttress between and angle buttresses on left corner. Crenellated parapet hides low pitch roof. Original chimneyshaft is tall narrow and octagonal with lattice pattern around the shaft, moulded cornice and embattled top.
Interior: Not inspected.
By circa 1900 this lodge was smaller than its companion South Lodge (q.v.) and local people remember it as the gardener's cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ6336049750

Description from record TQ 64 NW 29 :
[TQ 63374975] North Lodge [NAT] (1) HADLOW HIGH STREET (south side) North Lodge. Former lodge to Hadlow Castle (qv). Circa 1820, probably by George Ledwell Taylor who designed Hadlow Castle (qv), with mid C19 and C20 alterations. [Full architectural reference] LISTED GRADE II*. (2)

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

<1> OS 1:2500 1974 (OS Card Reference). SKE48216.

<2> DOE(HHR)Dist of Tonbridge and Malling Kent, 19th Feb 1990 67 (OS Card Reference). SKE41375.

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