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DUKE OF KENT SCHOOL

DUKE OF KENT SCHOOL, PEASLAKE ROAD, EWHURST, GU6 7NS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1044340
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: DUKE OF KENT SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: DUKE OF KENT SCHOOL, PEASLAKE ROAD, EWHURST, GU6 7NS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1044340
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: DUKE OF KENT SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: DUKE OF KENT SCHOOL, PEASLAKE ROAD, EWHURST, GU6 7NS

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DUKE OF KENT SCHOOL, PEASLAKE ROAD, EWHURST, GU6 7NS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:: Ewhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 08818 42912

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/05/2017

TQ 04SE 2/201

EWHURST CP PEASLAKE ROAD Duke of Kent School

(Formerly listed as Duke of Kents School (Formerly Woolpit))

II Country House now school. 1885 by George and Peto for a member of the Doulton tile family. Red brick with buff terracotta angle quoins and dressings, plain tiled roofs.

Roughly L-shaped plan with extensions to rear and built on a hilly site with forecourt between the two ranges. Two storeys with attics in gables and taller, three stage tower at angle to rear. Decorative brick and terracotta ridge stacks, some with corbelled tops and bands of terracotta work, to left end, centre, front right and rear. Two ranges with riple gabled section to left of re-entrant angle with one three-light mullioned, terracotta-dressed attic window in two gables, ogee-arched terracotta armorial panel in the third, all three with finials on the apex of the gable and sill course below. Three-light window to right hand gable on the first floor, hip-roofed angle bay to centre gable and large hall/staircase window of 12 lights in terracotta surround rising through ground and first floors of left hand gable. Two first floor windows in set back range to left and further one window range set back again to left end.

Flat-roofed brick extensions, similarly staggered, across the ground floor with mullioned and transomed casement fenestration. Double gable end to right hand projecting wing with angle bay window rising through two storeys on left hand gable end. One under-eaves casement, two first floor and one ground floor window on left hand side. Pyramidal roof and upper arcaded stage of tower visible to rear at junction of ranges under spiked weathervane finial. Flat-roofed brick extensions to end of right hand projecting wing. Brick flat-roofed entrance porch to re-entrant angle with arched section breaking forward and stepping up to tiled porch and carved double doors.

Left hand return front: angle bay oriel window to first floor left. Rear - triple gable range to right with two-storied hip-roofed angle bay windows to each. Tower to centre of set back range with pierced parapet to flat-roofed projecting ground floor and terracotta clad hip-roofed oriel window on second stage of tower. C20 brick extensions to left projecting forward and linking to formerly freestanding single storey hipped roof pavilion with spherical finial to roof apex, round arched, terracotta-dressed fenestration, the lower lights with terracotta balustrade across, and panelled door in columned surround and approached up a flight of steps.

Interior: panelled great hall with staircase to left. Two original bathrooms survive, the most splendid now attached to the headmasters accommodation decorated in blue/green tiles with bath in arched tile clad recess niche.

Listing NGR: TQ0881842912

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 291843
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 227

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.