LANGLEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL MASTER'S HOUSE (SUNRISE NURSERY AND PRE-PREP SCHOOL)

LANGLEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL MASTERS HOUSE, SUTTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060897
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: LANGLEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL MASTER'S HOUSE (SUNRISE NURSERY AND PRE-PREP SCHOOL)
Statutory Address:: LANGLEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL MASTERS HOUSE, SUTTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060897
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: LANGLEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL MASTER'S HOUSE (SUNRISE NURSERY AND PRE-PREP SCHOOL)
Statutory Address 1:: LANGLEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL MASTERS HOUSE, SUTTON ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: SUNRISE NURSERY AND PRE-PREP SCHOOL, SUTTON ROAD

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:: LANGLEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL MASTERS HOUSE, SUTTON ROAD
Statutory Address:: SUNRISE NURSERY AND PRE-PREP SCHOOL, SUTTON ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Langley
National Grid Reference:: TQ 80520 51534

Details

LANGLEY SUTTON ROAD TQ 85 SW (west side) 2/102 Langley School and School Master's House (Sunrise Nursery and Pre- Prep School) GV II

School and school master's house. Circa 1855, by Butterfield (J.Newman, Buildings of England Series, West Kent and the Weald, 1980). Small blocks of coursed stone with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. L-plan, with house to left and school projecting to front to right. House: 1½ storeys. Left half of front elevation breaks forward slightly with roof pitch unchanged, but is rebated back again towards left end except under eaves, where it is supported on 2 moulded stone corbels. Broad stone stack to rear towards left end, parallel to ridge, capped with vertically- set stones of ragged outline. Similar, shouldered stack to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows; narrow wooden 6- light frieze window under eaves to left end of right half, and stone through dormer towards right end, with stud-work in gable containing 2 narrow adjacent 8-light glazing-bar sashes separated by wooden mullion. Two ground-floor windows; one to left section of two 12-pane glazing-bar sashes separated by chamfered stone mullion, and similar window to right with 8-pane sashes. Central boarded door. Stone porch slightly overlapping left section with wavy bargeboards and studwork to gable; no outer door, but 2- centred arched wooden architrave with solid spandrels. Rear lean- to and 2 short rear wings. School: linked to house by short single- storey section with 2-centred arched boarded door. School single- storey but taller than link. 2 slightly projecting stacks to long right side. Two 6-light and one 4-light stone mullioned and transomed windows to left side, with shouldered heads to upper lights. Traceried window to gable end. Central 2-centred arched boarded door to left side. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ8052051534

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Legacy System number:: 174120
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980)

Legal

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