Description

LAMBERHURST SCHOOL HILL
TQ 6636-6736
(west side)
8/211 Lamberhurst Primary
School
GV II

School. 1834-6, largely extended 1846-56 and again 1877. Hooker of Brenchley,
architect. Red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings and plain tiled roof. Two
storeys on plinth with string course and quoins and projecting end bays, with 3
shaped gables to centre section and to each end gable, with clock tower to centre
left in re-entrant to left hand gable, with broach spire and lucarnes; moulded
stacks to end right and to left. Stone mullioned windows to tower, otherwise wooden
mullioned and mullioned and transomed windows, with label hoods in gables; five bay
frontage in all, including tower. Boarded door in four centred arched surround in
gabled porch projecting from clock tower, with similar doorway to right return.
Plaque in left hand gable (the former Master's House) with initials W.A.M., recording
William Morland, by whose legacy of £200 in 1846, the original single storey block
was extended, raised and decorated, and date of 1877 in right hand gable, recording
the addition of this wing. See W.Morland, Lamberhurst School.

Listing NGR: TQ6769436503

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26371732

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide