Description

ROLVENDEN MAYTHAM ROAD
1.
5272
Gatehouse to
Great Maytham
(formerly listed as
Gateway)
TQ 8430 19/319 4.6.52.
II*

2.
Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for H J Tennant in 1909-12. It consists of a
carriage archway with a lodge or cottage on each side of it. Grey bricks
(all stretchers) with red brick window dressings and quotas. Hipped tiled
roof. On the inner face of the carriage archway are round windows and above
it a clock face and wooden cupola. on the north-east side facing the road
the Lodges flanking the archway are L-shaped. The portions immediately flanking
the archway are of one storey and attics with one window bay each flanked
by pilasters with a single window each at 1st floor level only, a moulded
wooden cornice and a parapet over. The inner or south-west side of the Gatehouse
facing the house has 3 windows and 3 dormers on each side of the carriage
archway, all with segmental heads.

Listing NGR: TQ8489530730

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556078

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)