Description

EAST MALLING & LARKFIELD CLARE LANE
TQ 65 NE
(south side)
7/150
Old School Cottages
1.8.52
- II

House and school, now offices. Dated 1781. Limewashed brick. Corbelled brick
eaves to plain tiled roof with part catslide outshut to rear. End stacks and
2 stacks off-ridge to rear of right of centre. 2 small hipped dormers to left.
2 storeys; irregular fenestration of 6 windows on 1st floor and 4 on ground
floor, with smaller central window. 2 panelled doors with moulded flat project-
ing hoods, one bay in from each end. C20 extension at rear (not listed). In
centre of first floor is a plaque with inscriptions in Latin and Greece. Below
this is another plaque inscribed 'This house and school and that at Leybourne
were bath erected and endowed at the sole expense of the Reverend Edward Holme,
Vicar of Birling.

Listing NGR: TQ6956157446

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26391284

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]