This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
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
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0700 IOE Records taken by Geoffrey Farrow; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Geoffrey Farrow. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Farrow, Geoffrey
Rights Holder: Farrow, Geoffrey
Sandstone, Tile, Georgian School, Victorian Education, Teachers House, Domestic, House, Dwelling
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