Lady Hawkins School is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1976. School.
Lady Hawkins School
- WRENN ID
- high-steeple-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1976
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
KINGTON
SO2956 643-1/1/39 26/07/76
CHURCH ROAD (South East side) Lady Hawkins School (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH ROAD Lady Hawkins Grammar School)
GV II
School. c1632; altered and extended 1907. By John Abel. Coursed dressed sandstone; plain tile roof; various early C20 stacks, some grouped and set diagonally. E-shaped on plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range, 1 in each advanced wing: early C20 windows, under hood moulds; 4 roof-dormers with casements, under enriched plaster gables. Various entrances and porches, with C20 doors, in moulded 4-centred arches; various early C20 lights under hood moulds. Right returned side of central wing has blocked doorway with chamfered span-arch lintel. Plaque: "Lady Hawkins Foundress 1632". Early C20 wing to east. INTERIOR: early C20 open-well staircase with moulded balusters; early C20 staircase with stick balusters. C17 mullion and transom window with metal casements, under hood mould (now under C20 porch). Founded on bequest by Margaret (nee Vaughan), widow of Sir John Hawkins, d.1620. Windows raised, roof rebuilt, and east wing added, 1907. (RCHME: Herefordshire: 91).
Listing NGR: SO2912456659
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