Listed Building record TQ 63 NE 101 - LAMBERHUST PRIMARY SCHOOL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1834 to 1877

Location

Grid reference TQ 6769 3650 (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 (west side) 8/211 Lamberhurst Primary School GV II
School. 1834-6, largely extended 1846-56 and again 1877. Hooker of Brenchley, architect. Red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings and plain tiled roof. Two storeys on plinth with string course and quoins and projecting end bays, with 3 shaped gables to centre section and to each end gable, with clock tower to centre left in re-entrant to left hand gable, with broach spire and lucarnes; moulded stacks to end right and to left. Stone mullioned windows to tower, otherwise wooden mullioned and mullioned and transomed windows, with label hoods in gables; five bay frontage in all, including tower. Boarded door in four centred arched surround in gabled porch projecting from clock tower, with similar doorway to right return. Plaque in left hand gable (the former Master's House) with initials W.A.M., recording William Morland, by whose legacy of £200 in 1846, the original single storey block was extended, raised and decorated, and date of 1877 in right hand gable, recording the addition of this wing. See W.Morland, Lamberhurst School.
Listing NGR: TQ6769436503


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

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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM