Dunk's School and Almshouses
DUNK'S SCHOOL AND ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, RYE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084595
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dunk's School and Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- DUNK'S SCHOOL AND ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, RYE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084595
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dunk's School and Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUNK'S SCHOOL AND ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, RYE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DUNK'S SCHOOL AND ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, RYE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 76201 30578
Details
HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (north side) Highgate 17/401 Dunk's School and Almshouses (Nos 1 to 6) 9.6.52 GV II School and almshouses. Dated 1723, altered C19. Red brick, in 2 shades, with plain tiled roof. Central school block with flanking almshouse wings of 3 cottages each. Central block of 2 storeys with plinth, plat band and brick dog- tooth cornice to pyramidal roof with wooden clock turret, with arcaded top piece, leaded roof and finial. Stack to right. Three wooden casements on first floor, and 2 cross-windows on ground floor, all with gauged heads, with boarded door to right with open pedimented hood on paired brackets, partly obscuring the original gauged door head. Flanking wings of lower 2 storeys, with plat band and wooden cornice (at plat level of central block). half-hipped roofs with 2 stacks to each wing. Six wooden casements to each block on first floor, arranged in pairs, and 4 wooden casements with boarded doors to left and to right on ground floor, the central openings originally doorways, all with flat-arched heads. Parallel wings to rear with lower roof lines, tile hung with irregular fenestration of wooden casements, the central block with large hipped extension. To the centre of the main elevation is a raised brick panel with this inscription. Given by Sr Thomas Dunk K+. 1723. Founded under the terms of Sir Thomas's will (d.1718), who left £2000 for a free school and almshouses for 6 decayed housekeepers (3 men and 3 women). See Hasted, vol VII, p.152).
Listing NGR: TQ7620130578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169751
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1801), 152
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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