Listed Building: THE SOUTH HALF OF THE MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND TONBRIDGE SCHOOL (1124184)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 598, 5, 35C
Date assigned 20 January 1972
Date last amended

Description

1. HIGH STREET 1732 (West Side) Tonbridge School The South half of the main School Buildings. TQ 5946 NW 3/35C TQ 5947 SW 5/35C II 2. 1864. Architect E H Burnell. file section of the School built at this date is a good example-of mid-Victorian "Gilbert Scott" Gothic. 3 storeys. 12 windows. Sandstone ashlar. Castellated parapet. Blue slate roof with 2 horizontal lines of 5 courses each of green slates inserted along the centre. The building is divided into 2 sections by a small tower in the centre. The south section has 6 windows of 3 trefoil-headed lights each with stone mullions on ground floor, square-headed windows with stone transoms as well as mullions on first floor and pairs of trefoil-headed lancets on 2nd floor. The tower has 4 storeys, buttresses at angles and 4-light oriel window on 1st floor. The north section has 6 pointed windows of 2 trefoil-headed lancets each extending from ground to 1st floor plus 1 window bay of square-headed windows on both floors containing 4 lights each with 2 transoms; on the 2nd floor of whole section 14 trefoil-headed lancets. Listing NGR: TQ5906547021

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5907 4698 (point)
Map sheet TQ54NE
Civil Parish TONBRIDGE, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 11:31AM