The Lodge

TQ 62 40 PEMBURY THE GREEN, PEMBURY

13/358 No 7, The Lodge

GV II

House. Mid C19 with some C20 modernisation. Stucco probably on brick; brick stacks with plastered chimneyshafts with acroteria-like crests; slate roof.

Plan: Double depth plan house facing south east onto The Green. Front and back room either side of central entrance hall and main stair. The rooms have end stacks, the left front one projecting. Roof over front section is higher than that over the rear.

2 storeys.

Exterior: Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front of timber mullion-and- transom casements with margin panes and moulded stucco architraves. Ground floor left is a French window in the same style and right bay breaks forward with a full height tripartite window. Central doorway up 4 stone steps contains a part-glazed 12-panel door with a doorcase of flat pilasters with a moulded entablature. Moulded eaves cornice and tall parapet hiding the low pitch roof.

Interior: Not inspected but is believed to include original joinery and other detail.

The Lodge is one of 3 large detached C19 houses on the north west side of The Green. It was once used as Mr Ditmars School for the sons of Gentlemen.

Source Mary Standen. Pembury in the Past (1984), p.16.

Listing NGR: TQ6252740838