The South Half of the Main School Buildings Tonbridge School
THE SOUTH HALF OF THE MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124184
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The South Half of the Main School Buildings Tonbridge School
- Statutory Address:
- THE SOUTH HALF OF THE MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124184
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The South Half of the Main School Buildings Tonbridge School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SOUTH HALF OF THE MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TONBRIDGE SCHOOL, HIGH 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:
- THE SOUTH HALF OF THE MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TONBRIDGE SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 59076 46988
Details
1. HIGH STREET 1732 (West Side)
Tonbridge School
The South half of the main School Buildings. TQ 5946 NW 3/35C TQ 5947 SW 5/35C
II
2. 1864. Architect E H Burnell. file section of the School built at this date is a good example-of mid-Victorian "Gilbert Scott" Gothic. 3 storeys. 12 windows. Sandstone ashlar. Castellated parapet. Blue slate roof with 2 horizontal lines of 5 courses each of green slates inserted along the centre. The building is divided into 2 sections by a small tower in the centre. The south section has 6 windows of 3 trefoil-headed lights each with stone mullions on ground floor, square-headed windows with stone transoms as well as mullions on first floor and pairs of trefoil-headed lancets on 2nd floor. The tower has 4 storeys, buttresses at angles and 4-light oriel window on 1st floor. The north section has 6 pointed windows of 2 trefoil-headed lancets each extending from ground to 1st floor plus 1 window bay of square-headed windows on both floors containing 4 lights each with 2 transoms; on the 2nd floor of whole section 14 trefoil-headed lancets.
Listing NGR: TQ5906547021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178707
- 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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