GIBBON'S SCHOOL

GIBBON'S SCHOOL, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1085196
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: GIBBON'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: GIBBON'S SCHOOL, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1085196
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Jul-1993
List Entry Name:: GIBBON'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: GIBBON'S SCHOOL, THE STREET

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:: GIBBON'S SCHOOL, THE STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Benenden
National Grid Reference:: TQ 80943 32901

Details

BENENDEN TQ8032 THE STREET 1350-0/7/134 (North East side)

09/06/52 Gibbon's School (Formerly Listed as: THE STREET Old Grammar School)

GV II

Headmaster's house and primary school canteen. Dated 1609 on wooden board under eaves with inscription "Edmund Gibbon founder of this school", refaced early C19. Timberframed building refaced with red brick on ground floor and scalloped tiles on first floor. Old plain tiled roof with central cruciform brick stack. Lobby entrance house of 2 storeys 4 bays. 1st floor has 4 C19 casements, two 3-light, one 2-light and one 4-light. Ground floor has one 4-light C19 casement to right hand side, doorcase with flat wooden hood on brackets and 6 flush panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, then two 4-light casements and 2 further 6 panelled doors. Linked by hipped weather hood and with 2-light casement between. Left side elevation has weatherboarded gable and early C19 brick lean to. Right side elevation entirely weatherboarded and with moulded bressumer to gable, probably early C19. Both gables have carved wooden brackets. Interior has jowled posts & beams with lamb's tongue stops. 6 panelled early C19 doors.

Listing NGR: TQ8094332901

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Legacy System number:: 170243
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.