Langley School And School Master'S House (Sunrise Nursery And Pre-Prep School) is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. School, house.

Langley School And School Master'S House (Sunrise Nursery And Pre-Prep School)

WRENN ID
veiled-ashlar-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1985
Type
School, house
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Langley School and the School Master's House, now known as Sunrise Nursery and Pre-Prep School, were built around 1855 by Butterfield. The buildings are constructed from small blocks of coursed stone with ashlar dressings and feature a plain tile roof. The layout is L-shaped, with the house on the left and the school projecting to the front on the right.

The house is 1½ storeys tall. The left half of the front elevation slightly protrudes, maintaining the same roof pitch, but it is set back again towards the left end, except under the eaves, where it is supported by two moulded stone corbels. There is a broad stone chimney stack at the rear towards the left end, running parallel to the ridge and topped with vertically set stones that have a ragged outline. A similar, shouldered chimney stack is located at the right gable end. The front has an irregular arrangement of two windows: a narrow wooden 6-light frieze window under the eaves on the left end of the right half, and a stone window through a dormer on the right end, which features stud-work in the gable and contains two narrow adjacent 8-light glazing-bar sashes separated by a wooden mullion.

On the ground floor, there are two windows; one in the left section consists of two 12-pane glazing-bar sashes separated by a chamfered stone mullion, while the window to the right has 8-pane sashes. The central entrance features a boarded door and a stone porch that slightly overlaps the left section, adorned with wavy bargeboards and stud-work in the gable. There is no outer door, but a 2-centred arched wooden architrave with solid spandrels is present. The rear includes a lean-to and two short rear wings.

The school is connected to the house by a short single-storey section that has a 2-centred arched boarded door. The school itself is a single storey but taller than the link. It features two slightly projecting chimney stacks on the long right side, as well as two 6-light and one 4-light stone mullioned and transomed windows on the left side, which have shouldered heads for the upper lights. A traceried window is located at the gable end, and there is a central 2-centred arched boarded door on the left side. The interiors have not been inspected.

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