Listed Building record TQ 73 NW 129 - KILNDOWN CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1833 to 1866

Location

Grid reference TQ 7004 3522 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish GOUDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
GOUDHURST CHURCH ROAD TQ 73 NW (east side)
Kilndown 5/131 Kilndown Church of England Primary School GV II School. Mid C19. Dressed sandstone with plain tiled roof. Master's house, with cross-wing, with school range to rear, executed in Tudor-Gothic style. One storey and attic, the entrance front with kneelered parapet gables, 3 gabled dormers, and projecting gabled 2-storey wing to left with offset stack with lozenge-set flues, and label-hooded 2-light traceried window on each floor, main range with similar gabled porch, with arcaded sides and stone side benches. Right return with staggered 3-light gable window, and arched 2-light ground floor window, with quatrefoil over, and hood-mould, and quatrefoil and lozenge moulded surround to shield with Latin motto. School range of 1 storey and attic, with 2 gabled dormers, projecting 2 storeyed gables to left and right, with mullioned windows with label heads, with additional bay to end right, with arched doorway. Attri- buted to Alexander Roos (1846) by BOE, Kent I, 1980, p 354, but Kelly records the school 1869, and attributed to Mr Norris, Carpenter and Slater's Clerk of Works at Kilndown Church) and dedicated 1869 (Parish magazine, quoted Goudhurst Coronation Book, W Tiffin).
Listing NGR: TQ7005235227


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