BEDGEBURY LOWER SCHOOL, COLLINGWOOD HOUSE, AND WALL ATTACHED

BEDGEBURY LOWER SCHOOL, HASTINGS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1084640
Date first listed:: 20-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: BEDGEBURY LOWER SCHOOL, COLLINGWOOD HOUSE, AND WALL ATTACHED
Statutory Address:: BEDGEBURY LOWER SCHOOL, HASTINGS ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1084640
Date first listed:: 20-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: BEDGEBURY LOWER SCHOOL, COLLINGWOOD HOUSE, AND WALL ATTACHED
Statutory Address 1:: BEDGEBURY LOWER SCHOOL, HASTINGS ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: COLLINGWOOD HOUSE AND WALL ATTACHED, HASTINGS 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:: BEDGEBURY LOWER SCHOOL, HASTINGS ROAD
Statutory Address:: COLLINGWOOD HOUSE AND WALL ATTACHED, HASTINGS 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 75727 29313

Details

TQ 7429-7529; 18/315

HAWKHURST, HASTINGS ROAD (east side), Collingwood House (Bedgebury Lower School) and wall attached

20.06.67

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II*

House, now school. Mid C18, altered early C19. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. Three storey main block with single and 2-storeyed later wings, basically Palladian in style with Neo-Classical alterations and details. Entrance front: three storeys to centre with basement, with stone plat band and cornice to parapet. Stacks to left. Three half-sized glazing bar sashes on second floor, three full-size on first floor, all with moulded stone surrounds, the central window pedimented, the outer windows on first floor with stone aprons. Segmentally headed tripartite glazing-bar sashes on ground floor in enriched and bracketed surrounds. Central doubled half-glazed doors with fanlight and sidelights in Doric porch with coupled columns (originally an open porch), the inner doors also half-glazed. Railed basement area. Single-storey extension to left with plinth, discontinuous plat band and parapet to hipped roof, with two recessed round-headed glazing-bar sashes and apsidal end wall. Two-storey and basement wing projecting at right, with parapet and stacks to right. Three glazing-bar sashes on each floor, half-sized on first floor, in moulded surrounds. Rear elevation with seven glazing-bar sashes on each floor and canted bay on ground floor.

INTERIOR: geometrical main stair with stick balusters on scrolled treads and with wreathed handrail and flanking niches in top-lit well. Plaster barrel-vaulted entrance hall with Ionic screen to corridor. Apsidal room with traceried rose window fanlight over exterior door. Heavily beamed and coffered Neo-Classical ceiling to another ground-floor room. Back stair with turned newels and ramped rail with flying dogleg over passageway. The house was bought by Sir John Herschel in 1840, who died here in 1871. Like his father, a noted astronomer, (President of the Royal Astronomical Society), Master of the Mint, 1850 and Pioneer of Photography (coined the terms 'positive' and 'negative'). Projecting from end right is a red brick wall, about 10 feet high and projecting about 30 yards in a double curve to the north west.

Listing NGR: TQ7572729313

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Legacy System number:: 169665
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.