Listed Building: SCHOOL HOUSE AND SCHOOL LODGE (1336711)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1355, 3, 180
Date assigned 10 October 1989
Date last amended

Description

In the entry for; LAMBERHURST HOOK GREEN (South side) TQ 63 NE 3/180 School House GV II The entry shall be amended to read; TQ 63 NE LAMBERHURST HOOK GREEN 3/180 (South side) School House School Lodge GV II School, now 2 houses. Dated 1870, by David Brandom, architect, built by Trollope of London for Lord Camden. Random coursed rubble with plain tiled roof. Two parallel ranges with connecting block. Roadside with 2 unequally sized gable end blocks, the larger to left was the single storey school room, that to right the two storey Master's house, each with plinth, quoins and string course to right hand block, and kneelered parapet gables, that to left with datestone, that to right with Camden Arms. Single storey linking piece, and stacks to centre and to right. Large full height three arched light mullioned and transomed window to left with label hood, and smaller 2 light window with similar details on first floor and 3 light on ground floor to right. Central boarded door with ornamental strap hinges in arch braced recessed porch. Right return with central semi-dormer with 3 arched light label hooded window, otherwise small 2 and 3 light windows as to roadside elevatidn; left return also with 4 similar windows, and 2 gabled and bargeboarded dormers. Built as the Bayham Abbey estate school, and part of the large number of structures on the estate by the same architect and builders See W Morland, Lamberhurst School. LAMBERHURST HOOK GREEN TQ 63 TIE (south side) 3/180 School House GV II School, now house. Dated 1870, by David Brandom, architect, built by Trollope of London for Lord Camden. Random coursed rubble with plain tiled roof. Two parallel ranges with connecting block. Roadside with 2 unequally sized gable end blocks, the larger to left was the single storey school room, that to right the two storey Master's house, each with plinth, quoins and string course to right hand block, and kneelered parapet gables, that to left with datestone, that to right with Camden Arms. Single storey linking piece, and stacks to centre and to right. Large full height three arched light mullioned and transomed window to left with label hood, and smaller 2 light window with similar details on first floor and 3 light on ground floor to right. Central boarded door with ornamental strap hinges in arch braced recessed porch. Right return with central semi-dormer with 3 arched light label hooded window, otherwise small 2 and 3 light windows as to roadside elevation; left return also with 4 similar windows, and 2 gabled and bargeboarded dormers. Built as the Bayham Abbey estate school, and part of the large number of structures on the estate by the same architect and builders. See W Morland, Lamberhurst School. Listing NGR: TQ6551035720

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6541 3589 (point)
Map sheet TQ63NE
Civil Parish LAMBERHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM