Former Working Men's Club

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TQ8431 18/10005

ROLVENDEN MAYTHAM ROAD The White House

(Formerly listed as Working Men's Club)

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Working Men's Club. 1927-8 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for H J Tennant of the Great Maytham Estate. Kentish vernacular style. V-shaped block of one storey. Weatherboarded with hipped tiled roofs. Symmetrical composition, the central block having three casements (the centre four-light, the end three-light) with two half-glazed doors. On either side are projecting sections with hipped roofs, one casement and half-glazed door and a further projecting but set back wing of one bay with triple casement, terminating in hipped ends with brown brick external chimneystacks flanked by four-light casements. Left side elevation has three wedge-shaped buttresses. Flat-roofed extension added to right hand side. Brick flat-roofed 1960s extension to rear.

Simple interior with contemporary brick fireplace.

Included for rarity of type by Lutyens.

Listing NGR: TQ8475931059