OLD HARVEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL

OLD HARVEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL, FOORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376803
Date first listed:: 20-Jan-1998
List Entry Name:: OLD HARVEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: OLD HARVEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL, FOORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376803
Date first listed:: 20-Jan-1998
List Entry Name:: OLD HARVEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: OLD HARVEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL, FOORD 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:: OLD HARVEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL, FOORD ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Folkestone
National Grid Reference:: TR 22733 36237

Details

TR 2236 SE FOLKESTONE FOORD POAD

737/4/10006 Old Harvey Grammar School

II

School, later clinic. Built as the Harvey Grammar School in 1882, Architect Robert Wheeler, in Vernacular Revival style. Built of yellow and red brick with some pointed tile-hanging, stone window dressings and tiled roof. Comprises one storey school rooms with massive bell tower at end linking on to two storey and attic Master's house which also included dormitories. School rooms of yellow brick with red brick dressings and plinth, gable end with bands of pointed tiles divided by two courses of yellow bricks, tiled roof with ridge tiles and four stone mullioned and transomed windows divided by buttresses. Tall bell tower of yellow brick with red brick dressings set in centre of south cast front. This is of three stages with recessed central panels with arrow slit windows, wooden bellstage with cinquefoil-headed arches and square spire with alternate bands of plain and pointed tiles and metal weathervane. Four-centred arched stone entrance approached up flight of York stone steps with brick and stone balustrade. Attached to north east is Master's lodging with ground floor of red brick, first floor of yellow brick and attic floor of pointed tilehanging. Tiled roof with three tall clustered brick chimneystacks and an overhanging timber-framed gable to south east and north east with plaster infill, wooden bargeboards and four-light oriel window. Mullioned windows to each front and gabled brick weatherporch with pointed tiled roof to south eastern front. School part comprised school room of 50 x 25 feet and two classrooms. Master's house had Master's and Assistant Master's bedrooms, dormitories for the boys and servants' accommodation. ["A History of the Harvey Grammar School" by the Rev J Howard Brown B Sc.1962.]

Listing NGR: TR2273336237

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Legacy System number:: 469021
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Brown, Reverend J H, A History of the Harvey Grammar School, (1962)

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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.