Speldhurst County Primary School

Speldhurst County Primary School, Langton Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260770
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: Speldhurst County Primary School
Statutory Address:: Speldhurst County Primary School, Langton Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260770
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: Speldhurst County Primary School
Statutory Address 1:: Speldhurst County Primary School, Langton Road

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Speldhurst County Primary School, Langton Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Speldhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 55310 41309

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/04/2020

TQ 55 41 12/530

SPELDHURST LANGTON ROAD Speldhurst County Primary School

II School including boundary walls to the playground 1859 by Kelly (Pevsner) with some later C19 additions. Local sandstone ashlar, rusticated with large ashlar quoins; tile roof; stone stacks with brick shafts. Modest Gothic detail.

Plan: the school faces east. The original schoolhouse is sited to the north: the schoolmaster's house, now part of the school, is to the south. Schoolhouse gable end to the road with a porch block at right angles on the south side and a lateral stack on the south side. Short gabled wing on the north side. L-plan former master's house with a short front left (south east) wing and integral rear outshuts. The two principal rooms are heated from an axial stack and rear lateral stack.

Exterior: single storey former schoolhouse, one window to the gable end facing the road. Porch to the left, set back and gabled to the south with a door in the east wall. Deep eaves, the verges with plain bargeboards. Three-light transomed gable end window with a recessed arched tympanium over filled with masonry laid in a basket weave pattern; chamfered ventilation slit in gable. Chamfered stone doorway to the porch with an original plank door with iron strap hinges with fleur-de-lys finials. Crank-headed window in the southern return of the porch with a ventilation slit over. Two windows to the right (north) return of the main block. The north gable end of the north wing has three square-headed windows and two ventilation slits in the gable. Tall staggered brick shaft with a corbelled brick cornice on the left (south) side. Probably later C19 brick rear additions in a similar style. The former master's house has a one:two bay east elevation, gabled to the front at the left, roof gabled at ends, chamfered plinth. All the windows have chamfered reveals and stone sills and are glazed with C19 casements in timber mullioned frames. Approximately central plank front door with chamfered reveals and an overlight with a pointed arch in the masonry above the lintel. Three-light window to ground floor right with recessed arched tympanum over filled with masonry laid in a basket weave pattern. Two first floor two-light casements to the right. The gable end of the wing, to the left, has deep eaves and one ground and one first floor casement, each with pointed relieving arches with basket weave laid masonry below. Chamfered ventilation slit in the gable. The left (south) return of the house is rendered.

Slightly battered playground walls in random crazy rubble with weathered ashlar coping and rusticated ashlar gate piers. Taller wall of coursed sandstone forms the north boundary of the playground.

Interior: Not inspected.

Forms part of a good C19 group with the Church of St Mary (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ5531041309

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Legacy System number:: 439522
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.