Caroline Cottage/youth Club (The Institute)
CAROLINE COTTAGE/YOUTH CLUB (THE INSTITUTE), SCHOOL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085281
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Caroline Cottage/youth Club (The Institute)
- Statutory Address:
- CAROLINE COTTAGE/YOUTH CLUB (THE INSTITUTE), SCHOOL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085281
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Caroline Cottage/youth Club (The Institute)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAROLINE COTTAGE/YOUTH CLUB (THE INSTITUTE), SCHOOL HILL
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:
- CAROLINE COTTAGE/YOUTH CLUB (THE INSTITUTE), SCHOOL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamberhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67703 36414
Details
LAMBERHURST SCHOOL HILL TQ 6636-6736 (east side) 8/209 Caroline Cottage/Youth Club (the Institute) GV II
School/Working Mens Club, now house. 1854 for the Morland family; Caveler and Hooker of Margate, architects, extended C20. Red brick with blue brick diapering and ashlar dressings. Ornamentally tiled roof. L-shaped plan. Two storeys on plinth with quoins and with brick buttresses to projecting wing at left. Roofs with moulded bargeboarded gables and moulded paired stacks to centre left and corbelled out at end right, and with 2 gabled half-dormers to centre. Two wooden cross windows on ground floor and boarded door in half-timbered porch in re-entrant to wing with arched braced and bargeboarded gable. Projecting wing originally a single storey hall, with 3 light Perpendicular style depressed arched window with inscription plaque over. All openings with ashlar surrounds. Single storey and parapet flat roofed extension to left. The plaque, dated 1854, records three generations of Caroline Morlands (of Lamberhurst Court Lodge); the building also recorded in Aug. 12 1854 issue of The Builder. Founded originally as an infant school, closed 1876 and re-used as a working mens' club and youth club, converted late C20 to domestic use. See W. Morland. Lamberhurst School.
Listing NGR: TQ6770336414
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 170046
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in 12 August, (1854)
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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