Description

HAWKHURST THE MOOR
TQ 7429-7529 (north side)

18/361
Hawkhurst Primary
School
GV II
School. Built as National schools, 1863, Joseph Clarke, architect at a cost of
£1600. Predominantly red brick with polychrome bands, some stone dressings, and
plain tiled roof. Originally schoolrooms with master's house to left (east).
Main single storey block with brick dogtooth cornice (carried throughout the
ensemble) to gabled roof, with small stack to left, heavily buttressed central
semi-dormer, half-hipped with combined bell tower with moulded cross set in base
and with stumpy pyramidal roof on colonettes, and with projecting buttresses,
half hipped cross wing at right, balanced to left by the almost detached
2-storey and half hipped master's house. Mullioned windows, with chamfered
surrounds and shafts throughout, those to central semi-dormer and cross wing
with transoms, and, as master's house, with relieving arches over, that to cross
wing with cusped roundel. Half-glazed door with sidelights to left in passage
connecting main range and master's house, the latter with half-hipped transverse
wing, with half-glazed door in re-entrant angle, covered by raking and arcaded
porch. Originally detailed additional block to rear in same style, with hipped
roof with louvred dormers and large hipped semi-dormers but with wooden casement
windows.

Listing NGR: TQ7567829732

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26368377

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record