The Lodge, St Francis Chase
| The Lodge, St Francis Chase | |
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| LL ref: | 366 |
| Start date: | 1905 |
| Architect: | Luck Brothers Ltd |
| Builder: | unknown |
| Original use: | School |
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This distinctive local landmark fronting Bexhill Down was built in 1905, designed by Luck Brothers architects as a stables and lodging for a coachman serving Down Villa. It has a white-rendered elevations with a characterful crenellated parapet with taller central bay over the former archway, later infilled. In 1909 it became the lodge for a German school, the Deutches Pedagogium until the outbreak of the First World War and then for Garth Place School after the war. It then became part of St Francis School for Girls who occupied this site between 1946 and 1972. It is now a mental health residential home for adults.