HAWKHURST HASTINGS ROAD TQ 7429-7529 (east side) 18/315 Collingwood House (Bedgebury Lower School) 20.6.67 and wall attached GV II* House, now school. Mid C18, altered early C19. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. Three storey main block with single and 2 storeyed later wings, basically Palladian in style with Neo-Classical alterations and details. Entrance front: 3 storeys to centre with basement, with stone plat band and cornice to parapet. Stacks to left. Three half-sized glazing bar sashes on second floor, 3 full size on first floor, all with moulded stone surrounds, the central window pedimented, the outer windows on first floor with stone aprons. Segmentally headed tripartite glazing bar sashes on ground floor in enriched and bracketed surrounds. Central doubled half-glazed doors with fanlight and side-lights in Doric porch with coupled columns (originally an open porch), the inner doors also half-glazed. Railed basement area. Single storey extension to left with plinth, discontinuous plat band and parapet to hipped roof, with 2 recessed round-headed glazing bar sashes and apsidal end wall. Two storey and basement wing projecting at right, with parapet and stacks to right. Three glazing bar sashes on each floor, half sized on first floor, in moulded surrounds. Rear elevation with 7 glazing bar sashes on each floor and canted bay on ground floor. Interior: geometrical main stair with stick balusters on scrolled treads and with wreathed handrail and flanking niches in top lit well. Plaster barrel vaulted entrance hall with Ionic screen to corridor. Apsidal room with traceried rose window fan- light over exterior door. Heavily beamed and coffered Neo-Classical ceiling to another ground floor room. Back stair with turned newels and ramped rail with flying dog-leg over passageway. The house was bought by Sir John Herscliel in 1840, who died here in 1871. Like his father, a noted astronomer, (President of the Royal Astronomical Society), Master of the Mint, 1850 and Pioneer of Photog- raphy (coined the terms 'positive' and 'negative'. Projecting from end right is a red brick wall, about 10 feet high and projecting about 30 yards in a double curve to the north west. Listing NGR: TQ7572729313