The facilities
We offer a small modern hall with all the necessary ancillary facilities. The hall itself has a capacity of 60 persons. There is electric heating and dimmable lighting. The kitchen is fully equipped, including a cooker, microwave and refrigerator. There are separate toilets for men and women and a toilet for the disabled. All is clean and freshly decorated. Wi-fi is available at no extra charge.
There is adequate parking off Coldharbour Road and access from the main hall onto a large recreation field with a newly equipped, fenced children’s playground.
Our story
In the early nineties, the local residents were concerned that the old Pavilion was under threat of demolition. It had been brought, like a prefab, from London during the First World War and had always had a leaky roof. By the end of the century, it was affected by rot and had been declared unsafe.
A group of three made representations at the Benenden Parish Council Annual General Meeting. Although it was objected that any new Pavilion would be a ’white elephant’, a public meeting was called in Iden Green. An attendance of an hundred in the chapel overwhelmingly supported the proposal to build on the footprint of the then existent hall.
Within a year, funds had been raised in grants from Kent County Council, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and the Harmsworth Trust, and the new structure had gone up.
