Listed Building record TQ 54 SW 236 - STABLE BLOCK AT SWAYLANDS SCHOOL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1880 to 1889

Location

Grid reference TQ 5337 4321 (point)
Map sheet TQ54SW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish BIDBOROUGH, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 54 SW BIDBOROUGH PENSHURST ROAD (south side)
3/26 Stable block at Swaylands School
GV II
Stable block, converted to housing. Circa 1880s, contemporary with the lodge (q.v.). Local sandstone, brought to course; concrete tile roof; stacks with brick shafts. Tudor style.
Plan: 3 and a half ranges round a courtyard, the east range probably used for grooms' or servants' accommodation.
Exterior: Single-storye and attic. The style matches the lodge with coped gables and gabled dormers with copings and kneelers. Asymmetrical 9-window east front with gables to left and right and 2 gabled dormers with 4 attic dormers with flat tops. C20 porch to right of centre with a hipped roof. Various one-, 2- and 3-light casements, mostly with their original glazing with small panes, some with replaced glazing. Clock on ridge, probably with a missing cupola. Chimney-shaft is right of centre with clustered shafts with a batter and corbelled brick coping. The elevations facing the courtyard continue in the same style with gabled and attic dormers and small-pane windows. The 4-bay north range has a chamfered Tudor arched doorway to the right (west). Similar doorway in the 5-bay west range. The south range is shorter with an entrance to the yard on the south side.
Interior: Not inspected.
Group value with Swaylands School, separately listed in Penshurst parish.
Listing NGR: TQ5615543382


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