Listed Building record TQ 63 NE 87 - CAROLINE COTTAGE/YOUTH CLUB (THE INSTITUTE)

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1854 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TQ 6770 3641 (point)
Map sheet TQ63NE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish LAMBERHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LAMBERHURST SCHOOL HILL TQ 6636-6736 (east side) 8/209 Caroline Cottage/Youth Club (the Institute) GV II
School/Working Mens Club, now house. 1854 for the Morland family; Caveler and Hooker of Margate, architects, extended C20. Red brick with blue brick diapering and ashlar dressings. Ornamentally tiled roof. L-shaped plan. Two storeys on plinth with quoins and with brick buttresses to projecting wing at left. Roofs with moulded bargeboarded gables and moulded paired stacks to centre left and corbelled out at end right, and with 2 gabled half-dormers to centre. Two wooden cross windows on ground floor and boarded door in half-timbered porch in re-entrant to wing with arched braced and bargeboarded gable. Projecting wing originally a single storey hall, with 3 light Perpendicular style depressed arched window with inscription plaque over. All openings with ashlar surrounds. Single storey and parapet flat roofed extension to left. The plaque, dated 1854, records three generations of Caroline Morlands (of Lamberhurst Court Lodge); the building also recorded in Aug. 12 1854 issue of The Builder. Founded originally as an infant school, closed 1876 and re-used as a working mens' club and youth club, converted late C20 to domestic use. See W. Morland. Lamberhurst School.
Listing NGR: TQ6770336414


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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM