Kilndown Old School
Kilndown Old School, Church Road, Kilndown, Cranbrook, TN17 2SF
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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.
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