Former Village School and Rosalind's Cottage
466, Station Road, Aylesford, ME20 7QR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186870
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Village School and Rosalind's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 466, Station Road, Aylesford, ME20 7QR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186870
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Village School and Rosalind's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 466, Station Road, Aylesford, ME20 7QR
- Statutory Address 2:
- Brassey Centre, Station Road, Aylesford, ME20 7QR
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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:
- 466, Station Road, Aylesford, ME20 7QR
- Statutory Address:
- Brassey Centre, Station Road, Aylesford, ME20 7QR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aylesford
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 72897 58816
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 January 2023 to update the name and address, amend description due to change of use of building and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 7258
12/90
AYLESFORD CP
STATION ROAD (east side)
Brassey Centre and No 466
Former Village School and Rosalind's Cottage
(Formerly listed as Village School and Rosalind's Cottage, STATION ROAD)
GV
II
Former school and school masters house. Dated 1853 as a National School by E W Stephens of Maidstone. Random dressed stone with some ashlar but mostly stock brick dressings as well as quoins. Plain and fish-scaled tiled roof with stacks behind ridge to right and in centre. Ventilation funnels on both ends of school block to left. The schoolmasters house to right is at right angles to, and has a higher ridge, than the school block to left, the step in the ridge masked by a large; though shallow, gabled projection, with decorative barge boards, pendant and finial. Gabled projection to left flanked by a pair of gabled hoods projecting from the roof over windows; all gables with decorative barge boards and finials, and wooden trusses in flanking gables. One and a half storeys to right, one storey in off-centre to right gabled projection and in block to left. Large eight-light pointed-arched window with transom and mullions, four bays to left with two small arched windows in projection and larger six-light transom and mullion windows flanking. Date stone, marked 1853, under gable of projection. Wooden semi-dormer oriel on four large brackets at extreme right. Entrance to Schoolmaster's House to left of oriel; depressed arched doorway, with original boarded door with three small inset panes of glass at apex of door. South front: gabled projections at either end with gabled semi-dormers between. Five bays on ground floor, with entrance with sloping weather porch on brackets in second bay from right. Large wings to rear of both main fronts.
Rosalind's Cottage was formerly the school master's house, and was renamed by a former occupant, Dame Sybil Thorndike, the actress.
Listing NGR: TQ7289758816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179263
- 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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