182, Tonbridge Road

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TQ 54 NE 5/130

HILDENBOROUGH TONBRIDGE ROAD (north east side) No 182

(Formerly listed as, No 182, LONDON ROAD)

GV II

Small house. Probably 1840s. Flemish bond brick; slate roof; brick stacks with clay chimney pots.

Plan: the house faces south west and is slightly set back from the Tonbridge Road. L-plan, the principal block two rooms wide with a central entrance and a rear left wing containing an additional heated room. A lean-to along the left return has a door into it from the front. Rear elevation not inspected at time of survey (1988).

Exterior: two storeys. Hipped roof with deep eaves; end stacks with flared chimney pots with moulded cornices and bases. Symmetrical three bay front elevation plus one bay to the lean-to at the left end. Central front door with a segmental arched fanlight with spoke glazing bars and a gabled porch hood on shaped brackets. Original moulded doorcase with diamond-shaped panels below the hood brackets, C20 front door. C19 panelled door into the lean-to at the left end. Three first and two ground floor windows, the outer bay windows with segmental brick arches, ground floor window left reglazed with a C20 aluminium window, the other twelve-pane sashes.

Interior: not inspected but may retain original joinery.

This house forms a pair with No 180, adjoining at right angles at the rear right.