The Old School House
The Old School House, The Square, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6TJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260450
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- The Old School House, The Square, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6TJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260450
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old School House, The Square, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6TJ
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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:
- The Old School House, The Square, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6TJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 17693 43878
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 November 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
TR 1643-1743
9/88
ELHAM
THE SQUARE (west side)
The Old School House
(Formerly listed as Elven House)
29.12.66
GV
II
Formerly school, now house. 1725, possibly with earlier core, and with mid-to-late C18 facade. Front elevation red brick in Flemish bond. Right gable end older brick in Flemish-type bond. Plain tile roof. Two storeys. High painted moulded brick plinth, returned along right gable end. Plat band to right gable end only. Plain brick eaves band. Roof continuous with The Old Bakery to left, hipped to right. Multiple brick ridge stack towards left end. Irregular fenestration of three twenty-pane sashes in open boxes, with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs; one left of stack, and two broadly-spaced to right, all set well below eaves. Similar windows to ground floor. Door of six sunk panels under stack. Doric porch with moulded triangular pediment and slate roof. Two storey tile-hung rear-wing to left, with lower ridge than main range, plain tile roof hipped to rear, and stack to long left side. Rear lean-to to right, brickwork integral with that of gable end. 1725 datestone to right gable end.
Interior not inspected.
House left to the parish by will of Sir John Williams, dated 1723, to provide for education of six local poor boys, with land to provide income (C.P.R.K. Elham, A Village Study, 1968). Formerly known as The Old School House.
Listing NGR: TR1769343878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Parkin, E W, Elham A Village Study, (1968)
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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