Marlborough House School
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338729
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Marlborough House School
- Statutory Address:
- MARLBOROUGH HOUSE SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00702/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338729
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Marlborough House School
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARLBOROUGH HOUSE 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:
- MARLBOROUGH HOUSE SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 75290 30675
Details
HAWKHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7430-7530 (south side) 16/354 Marlborough House School 9.6.52 GV II* House. 1723 and extended 1879-80 by George Devey for Edward Hardcastle, and late C20. Red brick and plain tiled roof and extended with red brick, tile hanging and timber and plaster. C18 wing of 2 storeys and attic with plinth, plat band and coved rendered cornice to panelled parapet. Hipped roof with 4 pedimented dormers and stacks to left and to rear right. Seven glazing bar sashes on first floor, 6 on ground floor, the centre 3 bays projecting with pediment in parapet with central keyed roundel. Gauged heads to all window openings, the centre first floor head with wave-moulded bricks. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels in pedimented doorcase with engaged Ionic columns. Left return disposed in same pattern, only with blank window spaces in central pedimented projection except the central first floor and canted bays to left and right, the central window heads of bays and centre wave moulded. Beyond to the rear left are late C20 2-storey brick extensions. Right return: simple elevation with cornice and parapet, C20 single storey linking piece to stable block, and gabled and irregular rear elevation of C19 wing, the gable with terracotta plaque with Achievement. C19 wing in style influenced by R Norman Shaw, of 2 storeys and attic, the block adjoining the old house Classical in style with 2-storey canted bay with French doors and 2 glazing bar sashes on each floor, and 2 pediment dormers in hipped projecting roof, with recessed vernacular-style wing, tile hung on first floor, with gabled dormer, paired glazing bar sashes on first floor either side of gabled semi-dormer with triple sashes. Glazing bar sashes and panelled door with rectangular fanlight on ground floor. Interior: dog-leg stair with turned balusters and wreathed and ramped handrail, ramped dado panelling with baluster newels; pointed staircase window. Stair hall and entrance hall with light rococo ceilings, the former with fine central rose, the latter with interlaced rope work and hunting vignettes and sunburst, and with lugged fireplace surround with cherub's head and corn-sheath keystone. C19 wing with large C17 style stone fireplace with columned and arcaded wooden overmantel. Extensive cellars below. (See BOE Kent, I, 1980, 317).
Listing NGR: TQ7529030675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169704
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 317
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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