Old School Cottages
OLD SCHOOL COTTAGES, CLARE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1099129
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old School Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL COTTAGES, CLARE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1099129
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old School Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL COTTAGES, CLARE LANE
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:
- OLD SCHOOL COTTAGES, CLARE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Malling & Larkfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 69561 57446
Details
EAST MALLING & LARKFIELD CLARE LANE TQ 65 NE (south side) 7/150 Old School Cottages 1.8.52 - II
House and school, now offices. Dated 1781. Limewashed brick. Corbelled brick eaves to plain tiled roof with part catslide outshut to rear. End stacks and 2 stacks off-ridge to rear of right of centre. 2 small hipped dormers to left. 2 storeys; irregular fenestration of 6 windows on 1st floor and 4 on ground floor, with smaller central window. 2 panelled doors with moulded flat project- ing hoods, one bay in from each end. C20 extension at rear (not listed). In centre of first floor is a plaque with inscriptions in Latin and Greece. Below this is another plaque inscribed 'This house and school and that at Leybourne were bath erected and endowed at the sole expense of the Reverend Edward Holme, Vicar of Birling.
Listing NGR: TQ6956157446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179324
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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