Kilndown Old School

Kilndown Old School, Church Road, Kilndown, Cranbrook, TN17 2SF

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084689
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: Kilndown Old School
Statutory Address:: Kilndown Old School, Church Road, Kilndown, Cranbrook, TN17 2SF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084689
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: Kilndown Old School
Statutory Address 1:: Kilndown Old School, Church Road, Kilndown, Cranbrook, TN17 2SF

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:: Kilndown Old School, Church Road, Kilndown, Cranbrook, TN17 2SF

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Goudhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 70050 35226

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 April 2023 to update the name and address, amend description due to change in building use and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 73 NW 5/131 GOUDHURST Kilndown CHURCH ROAD (east side) Kilndown Old School

(Formerly listed as Kilndown Church of England Primary School)

GV II Former 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, three gabled dormers, and projecting gabled two storey wing to left with offset stack with lozenge-set flues, and label-hooded two-light traceried window on each floor, main range with similar gabled porch, with arcaded sides and stone side benches. Right return with staggered three-light gable window, and arched two-light ground floor window, with quatrefoil over, and hood-mould, and quatrefoil and lozenge moulded surround to shield with Latin motto. School range of one storey and attic, with two gabled dormers, projecting two storeyed gables to left and right, with mullioned windows with label heads, with additional bay to end right, with arched doorway. Attributed 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: TQ7005035226

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 169481
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 354
Tiffin, W, Goudhurst Coronation Book
'Goudhurst Parish Magazine' in Goudhurst Parish Magazine, ()
'Kelly's Directory' in Kelly's Directory, ()

Legal

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