Caroline Cottage/Youth Club (The Institute)

Caroline Cottage, also known as the Youth Club or The Institute, is a building located on School Hill in Lamberhurst. It was constructed in 1854 for the Morland family, designed by architects Caveler and Hooker of Margate, and has been extended in the 20th century. The structure is made of red brick with blue brick diapering and features ashlar dressings. It has an ornamentally tiled roof and an L-shaped plan, standing two storeys tall on a plinth with quoins and brick buttresses on the projecting wing to the left.

The roofs are adorned with moulded bargeboarded gables and have moulded paired stacks located at the centre left, with corbelled stacks at the end right. There are two gabled half-dormers at the centre. The ground floor includes two wooden cross windows and a boarded door situated in a half-timbered porch that has an arched braced and bargeboarded gable. The projecting wing was originally a single-storey hall, featuring a three-light Perpendicular style depressed arched window with an inscription plaque above it. All openings are surrounded by ashlar.

To the left, there is a single-storey extension with a parapet and a flat roof. The plaque, dated 1854, commemorates three generations of Caroline Morlands from Lamberhurst Court Lodge, and the building is also mentioned in the August 12, 1854 issue of The Builder. Initially founded as an infant school, it closed in 1876 and was later repurposed as a working men's club and youth club before being converted for domestic use in the late 20th century.