Former Working Men's Club

The Former Working Men's Club, built in 1927-1928 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for H J Tennant of the Great Maytham Estate, is designed in a Kentish vernacular style. The building is a V-shaped block with one storey, featuring weatherboarding and hipped tiled roofs. Its symmetrical layout includes a central block with three casement windows (a four-light window in the center and three-light windows on the ends) and two half-glazed doors. Flanking this central section are projecting wings with hipped roofs, each containing one casement window and a half-glazed door. There is also a further projecting but set-back wing with a triple casement window, which ends in hipped sections with brown brick external chimneystacks and four-light casements. The left side elevation is marked by three wedge-shaped buttresses. A flat-roofed extension has been added to the right side, along with a brick flat-roofed extension from the 1960s at the rear. Inside, the building has a simple interior featuring a contemporary brick fireplace. This structure is noted for its rarity as a type designed by Lutyens.