Listed Building record TQ 54 NE 189 - THE SOUTH HALF OF THE MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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
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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 (1)

Historic England archive material: BF104366 Tonbridge School, High Street, Tonbridge

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.