Lodge at the Entrance to Sackville School is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Lodge at the Entrance to Sackville School
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-corridor-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge at the Entrance to Sackville School, London Road, Hildenborough, TN11 9HN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 564 487
- Coordinates
- 51.21683, 0.23912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a lodge dating probably to 1866, built as part of Foxbush, which later became Sackville School, and designed by G. Somers Clarke. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with blue diapering, with tile-hung gables, bands of scalloped tiles, a peg-tile roof, and a brick stack. The architectural style is Vernacular Revival.
The lodge is situated at the main entrance to Sackville School, overlooking the drive. It has an L-shaped plan, with a porch filling the angle between two blocks, and a stack at the junction. It is a single-storey building with an attic. The gabled roof has a stack with tall shafts and corbelled brick cornices. The north-east front, overlooking London Road, is asymmetrical with two windows. The left side has a jettied gable with a pendant and a five-light attic window, along with a one-light and a two-light casement window; the two-light window has a chamfered stone mullion. The pyramidal porch roof is supported on timber posts with moulded capitals. There is a plank front door with strap hinges. The right return gable coves out, with painted decoration, and has a transomed four-light bay window on the ground floor. The attic storey of the rear elevation is jettied and has tile hanging, and features one three-light window on the first floor and one on the ground floor, the latter with a high transom. The interior has not been inspected.
The lodge is a well-detailed building which contributes Group Value to Sackville School and other listed buildings along London Road.
Local climate
Lodge at the Entrance to Sackville School receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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