Description

1. HIGH STREET
1732 (West Side)

Tonbridge School

The North half of the main
School Buildings.
TQ 5947 SW 5/35D

II

2.
These buildings were added in 1894. Architect Campbell Jones. Sandstone ashlar.
To the south is a tower consisting of 2 carriage arches on ground floor,
2 storeys of 3-light windows above with 3 buttresses rising to the height
of the second floor, then a panel of chequered flints and stone with a
clock face in the centre and above this 4 narrow trefoil-headed lancets;
octagonal turrets with parapet between and tall pyramidal tiled roof.
Then comes a block of 7 windows with 3 lights on ground floor, 2 lights on
1st floor and gabled dormers of 2 lights each on 2nd floor. The section
ends on the north with a smaller tower somewhat similar to that in the
centre of the 1864 range but with its oriel window rising from the 1st to
the 2nd floor. To the north and east of the 1894 block are the Science
Buildings, erected in 1886-7 (Architect E H Burnell) which are not listed.

Listing NGR: TQ5906547021

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26323467

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy