Bentley Heath Lodge

Bentley Heath Lodge is a lodge for Wrotham Park, built in 1865, commissioned by G. Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, and designed by S.S. Teulon. The building features rockfaced, snecked Portland stone with ashlar dressings and has a red brick stack topped with a green slate roof. It is a single-storey structure with a cruciform plan that is asymmetrically arranged. The entrance is gabled and located at the angle of the main and cross blocks, featuring a pointed arch within a chamfered surround, supported by angle buttresses and topped with a coped gable parapet. The front has lancet windows with transoms, all of which are leaded casements. The gabled cross block includes a relieving arch above a double lancet window. The gable displays a datestone with "AD" under a coronet, along with kneelers and a ball finial decorated with quatrefoils. Other windows and gables share similar detailing. A canted bay on the left side has ovolo moulded jambs, and the left gable features intertwined S's. At the rear angle where the wing meets the main block, there is a stack set diagonally with two diagonal shafts, which have oversailing courses and tumbled brickwork. The interior has not been inspected.