Church Hall

LOWER ROAD TQ 75 SW EAST FARLEIGH (North Side) 2/45 Church Hall 20.12.1983 GV II

National school, now church hall. Mid C19 (by 1866), by J. Clarke. Uncoursed ragstone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Built at right-angles to road. Front gable end with short, slightly recessed wing to right. Further short wing towards rear, to long left side. 2 storeys, on chamfered stone plinth. 2 moulded stone string courses forming band between storeys to gable end, and one, lower, to right wing. Lower eaves to right wing. Stone-coped and kneelered gable with angled projections and fleur-de-lys finial. Similar gables to wings. Slightly projecting stone stack in angle with left wing. Tall window of 3 cusped lights with sexfoil and hoodmould. Ground-floor window of 3 stepped lights in moulded pointed- arched recess. First-floor window to wing of 3 stepped Caernavon-arched lights. Cusped lancet to ground-floor. Slightly recessed stone lean-to to left with boarded door. Taller doorway to right wing. Bell-cote to right gable end. Right return elevation of main range has four ground-floor windows similar to ground-floor window of gable end, alternating with buttresses, groups of lancets to first-floor, and central dormer. 2-storey turret to north-west, linked by cat-walk. Interior not inspected. Replaced a school by Butterfield, built in 1846. (J. Newman, B.O.E. Series, West Kent and the Weald,1980).

Listing NGR: TQ7291753345