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Latitude: 51.0669 / 51°4'0"N
Longitude: 0.5811 / 0°34'52"E
OS Eastings: 580943
OS Northings: 132901
OS Grid: TQ809329
Mapcode National: GBR PTT.3Q4
Mapcode Global: FRA D639.G6Z
Plus Code: 9F323H8J+QC
Entry Name: Gibbon's School
Listing Date: 9 June 1952
Last Amended: 5 July 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1085196
English Heritage Legacy ID: 170243
ID on this website: 101085196
Location: Benenden, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN17
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Benenden
Built-Up Area: Benenden
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Building
BENENDEN
TQ8032 THE STREET
1350-0/7/134 (North East side)
09/06/52 Gibbon's School
(Formerly Listed as:
THE STREET
Old Grammar School)
GV II
Headmaster's house and primary school canteen. Dated 1609 on
wooden board under eaves with inscription "Edmund Gibbon
founder of this school", refaced early C19. Timberframed
building refaced with red brick on ground floor and scalloped
tiles on first floor. Old plain tiled roof with central
cruciform brick stack. Lobby entrance house of 2 storeys 4
bays. 1st floor has 4 C19 casements, two 3-light, one 2-light
and one 4-light. Ground floor has one 4-light C19 casement to
right hand side, doorcase with flat wooden hood on brackets
and 6 flush panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, then two
4-light casements and 2 further 6 panelled doors. Linked by
hipped weather hood and with 2-light casement between. Left
side elevation has weatherboarded gable and early C19 brick
lean to. Right side elevation entirely weatherboarded and with
moulded bressumer to gable, probably early C19. Both gables
have carved wooden brackets. Interior has jowled posts & beams
with lamb's tongue stops. 6 panelled early C19 doors.
Listing NGR: TQ8094332901
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