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

• Wikidata Q26371732

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