Description

WORTH KING'S AVENUE TR 35 NE (South side)

2/153 Sandwich Bay 1.10.85 Kentlands and The Lodge

II

House. Circa 1920. Built as Small Downs House. C.H. Biddulph-Pinchard, architect. Timber framed with plaster infill, with red brick end walls and extrusions. Plain tiled roof. U-shaped plan. Entrance in courtyard. Two storeys on brick plinth, with hipped wings projecting left and right, jettied with stacks in left re-entrant angle and at end right and circular stair well on end of left.wing. Large window to left, 2 storey bay to right and four-centred arched door to centre right. Mullioned windows on wings. Rear elevation with glazed ground floor loggia of 5 bays with moulded posts. Jetty on brackets and dragon posts, and metal casements, 4 bays in all. Interior: wainscotting and four centred arched stone fireplaces and originally with imported C17 Dutch glass in wondows. Interconnected with The Lodge built as service-or guest accommodation. Two storeys, the ground floor of brick with hipped roof with large gablets, with central stack, with brick apsidal end towards house; irregular fenestration. Long single storey corridor at east end connecting with projecting side wing of house, itself with a jettied gabled porch. Reconstructed from 2 C17 brick houses in Dover, and timbers taken from dismantled barns.

Listing NGR: TR3631657689

External Links

• Wikidata Q26554665

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)