County Hall, Maidstone

County Hall, formerly the Old Sessions House, is a municipal building in Sandling Road in Maidstone, Kent, England.

[1] The original design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing south west; the central section of three bays featured an arched doorway with a fanlight flanked by two narrow windows and there was a triple window on the first floor; the end bays of the central section slightly projected forwards.

[4] Invicta House, a six-storey hexagonal building was built adjacent to County Hall in order to create extra accommodation capacity in the 1960s.

[11][12] In March 2020 the county council announced that it was considering leaving the building and moving to alternative premises which would be less costly to maintain.

[13][14] Works of art in the county hall include a portrait of the Deputy Lieutenant of Kent, Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville, by John St Helier Lander[15] and a portrait of the Governor of Bombay, George Harris, 4th Baron Harris, by Hubert von Herkomer.

The Sessions House, designed by Sir Robert Smirke, which can still be seen through the stone archway of the 1913 facade
The coat of arms of Kent in the façade.