Listed Building: GIBBON'S SCHOOL (1085196)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1350, 7, 134
Date assigned 09 June 1952
Date last amended

Description

BENENDEN TQ8032 THE STREET 1350-0/7/134 (North East side) 09/06/52 Gibbon's School (Formerly Listed as: THE STREET Old Grammar School) GV II Headmaster's house and primary school canteen. Dated 1609 on wooden board under eaves with inscription "Edmund Gibbon founder of this school", refaced early C19. Timberframed building refaced with red brick on ground floor and scalloped tiles on first floor. Old plain tiled roof with central cruciform brick stack. Lobby entrance house of 2 storeys 4 bays. 1st floor has 4 C19 casements, two 3-light, one 2-light and one 4-light. Ground floor has one 4-light C19 casement to right hand side, doorcase with flat wooden hood on brackets and 6 flush panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, then two 4-light casements and 2 further 6 panelled doors. Linked by hipped weather hood and with 2-light casement between. Left side elevation has weatherboarded gable and early C19 brick lean to. Right side elevation entirely weatherboarded and with moulded bressumer to gable, probably early C19. Both gables have carved wooden brackets. Interior has jowled posts & beams with lamb's tongue stops. 6 panelled early C19 doors. Listing NGR: TQ8094332901

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 8094 3290 (point)
Map sheet TQ83SW
Civil Parish BENENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM