Description

HAWKHURST RYE ROAD
TQ 7630-7730 (south side)

17/424 The Victorian Hall and
railed forecourt
GV II
Village hall. 1875 by Alfred Williams, architect. Red brick with some tile
hanging and plain tiled roof. Single storeyed hall with 2-storeyed service
end. String course and buttresses to large gabled roof with apsidal outshot
to left, 2 gabled semi-dormers to centre and canted 2-storey bay to right
with bargeboard and pendant, and stack at end right with moulded and arcaded
pair of flues. Mullioned and transomed windows to semi-dormers and bay (first floor only), the latter with side windows. Gabled porches with mullioned fanlights to left and to right with moulded depressed-arched doorways, and panelled doors within. Terracotta plaque to left of right-hand porch
inscribed: Lecture Hall. Left return gable with pigeon-holes. Right return
(and portion of right end of front elevation) tile hung, with terracotta
plaque on chimneystack inscribed: 18
HM
75.
Irregular rear elevation. Railed forecourt, with low brick wall and simple
iron rails, the principals bifurcated with knibbed scrolls.
See BOE, Kent, I, 1980, 317.

Listing NGR: TQ7611230541

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26417260

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)