Convalescent Home for Children, Hawkenbury, Tunbridge Wells

TUNBRIDGE WELLS - On Saturday last the Marchioness of Abergavenny laid the foundation- stone of a new convalescent home, which is about to be erected on a site adjoining Hawkenbury Church, near Tunbridge Wells. It was about fourteen years ago that Mrs. Thomas Ladds first established a similar institution on a small scale at Frant Forest. The new building, which will be of the Domestic Gothic style of architecture, will cost about £1,900. It will be of red brick, and the walls will be hollow throughout. There will be accommodation for twenty-eight beds. The architect is Mr. J. Ladds, of Chapel-street, Bedford-row, London, and the builders arc Messrs. Beale and Son, Frant-road, Tunbridge Wells. [Builder 30 August 1884 page 310]

Reference           Builder 30 August 1884 page 310

It appears that this convalescent home became an Open Sir School for the LCC. All buildings are now demolished and new housing erected on the site