The North Half of the Main School Buildings Tonbridge School is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1972. School. 1 related planning application.

The North Half of the Main School Buildings Tonbridge School

WRENN ID
vast-lantern-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 January 1972
Type
School
Address
The North Half of the Main School Buildings Tonbridge School, High Street, TN9 1SG
OS grid reference
TQ 590 470
Coordinates
51.20048, 0.27581
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The North half of the main School Buildings at Tonbridge School was added in 1894, designed by architect Campbell Jones. The structure is made of sandstone ashlar. It features a tower on the south side with two carriage arches on the ground floor and two storeys of three-light windows above. This tower has three buttresses that rise to the height of the second floor, a panel of chequered flints and stone with a clock face in the center, and above this, four narrow trefoil-headed lancets. There are octagonal turrets with a parapet between them and a tall pyramidal tiled roof. Adjacent to the tower is a block containing seven windows with three lights on the ground floor, two lights on the first floor, and gabled dormers with two lights each on the second floor. The section concludes on the north side with a smaller tower that resembles the one in the center of the 1864 range, featuring an oriel window that extends from the first to the second floor. To the north and east of the 1894 block are the Science Buildings, constructed in 1886-1887 by architect E H Burnell, which are not listed.

Local climate

The North Half of the Main School Buildings Tonbridge School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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