Listed Building record TQ 75 SW 144 - Church Hall, former school, Lower Road, East Farleigh, Maidstone
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Location
Grid reference | TQ 73394 53284 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ75SW |
County | KENT |
District | MAIDSTONE, KENT |
Civil Parish | EAST FARLEIGH, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LOWER ROAD TQ 75 SW EAST FARLEIGH (North Side) 2/45 Church Hall 20.12.1983 GV II
National school, now church hall. Mid C19 (by 1866), by J. Clarke. Uncoursed ragstone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Built at right-angles to road. Front gable end with short, slightly recessed wing to right. Further short wing towards rear, to long left side. 2 storeys, on chamfered stone plinth. 2 moulded stone string courses forming band between storeys to gable end, and one, lower, to right wing. Lower eaves to right wing. Stone-coped and kneelered gable with angled projections and fleur-de-lys finial. Similar gables to wings. Slightly projecting stone stack in angle with left wing. Tall window of 3 cusped lights with sexfoil and hoodmould. Ground-floor window of 3 stepped lights in moulded pointed- arched recess. First-floor window to wing of 3 stepped Caernavon-arched lights. Cusped lancet to ground-floor. Slightly recessed stone lean-to to left with boarded door. Taller doorway to right wing. Bell-cote to right gable end. Right return elevation of main range has four ground-floor windows similar to ground-floor window of gable end, alternating with buttresses, groups of lancets to first-floor, and central dormer. 2-storey turret to north-west, linked by cat-walk. Interior not inspected. Replaced a school by Butterfield, built in 1846. (J. Newman, B.O.E. Series, West Kent and the Weald,1980).
Listing NGR: TQ7291753345
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Apr 30 2019 10:32AM