Frittenden School
FRITTENDEN SCHOOL, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116159
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Frittenden School
- Statutory Address:
- FRITTENDEN SCHOOL, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116159
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Frittenden School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRITTENDEN SCHOOL, THE STREET
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:
- FRITTENDEN 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:
- Frittenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 81391 40961
Details
FRITTENDEN THE STREET TQ 8040-8140 (north west side) 14/62 Frittenden School GV II School. 1845. Red brick and render with plain tiled roof. Open courtyard plan with schoolmaster's house set within courtyard. Schoolmaster's house (now offices) of 1 storey and attic with gabled dormer to centre and large gables to left and to right with applied jettying, framing, pierced bargeboards and pendants. Moulded stacks to left and to right. Projecting moulded gables to left and right returns. Two sashes on ground floor and central boarded door in gabled porch. Classroom wings projecting to left and right, with jettying to gable ends, pierced bargeboards with pendants, shaped lights in gable apex. Projecting triangular-shaped mullioned bay to left wing, large sashes to right hand wing. Three moulded stone cross windows with labels to left return, with chinoiserie patterned glazing and intrusive mid C20 metal casement, boarded door. Playground front: symmetrical, with 2 large and smaller central gables with pierced, moulded and pendant bargeboards. Four wooden casements and two 3 light transomed casements either side of central glazed gabled porch. The return gables have in addition to the moulded woodwork large kite-shaped glazed areas in the gables. In Kent especially this is quite advanced work stylisti- cally for its date.
Listing NGR: TQ8139140961
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169412
- 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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