Kentlands and the Lodge

Kentlands and The Lodge are a house and associated accommodation, dating from around 1920, originally built as Small Downs House. The architect was C.H. Biddulph-Pinchard. The main house is timber framed with plaster infill, red brick end walls and extrusions, and has a plain tiled roof. It follows a U-shaped plan, with an entrance in a courtyard. The two-storey house sits on a brick plinth and features hipped wings projecting to the left and right, with jetties and stacks in the left re-entrant angle, at the end of the right wing, and near the circular stairwell on the end of the left wing. A large window is present to the left, a two-storey bay window to the right, and a four-centred arched door is centrally located on the right side. Mullioned windows are featured on the wings. The rear elevation includes a glazed ground-floor loggia of five bays with moulded posts. The jetty is supported by brackets and dragon posts, and features metal casements, four bays in total. Internally, the house features wainscotting, four-centred arched stone fireplaces, and originally contained imported 17th-century Dutch glass in the windows. Kentlands is interconnected with The Lodge, which was built as service or guest accommodation. The Lodge is two storeys high, with a brick ground floor, hipped roof with large gablets, a central stack, and a brick, apsidal end facing the main house. It has irregular fenestration. A long, single-storey corridor runs along the east end, connecting to a projecting side wing of the main house, which itself has a jettied gabled porch. The Lodge was reconstructed from two 17th-century brick houses in Dover, and timbers were taken from dismantled barns.