Bank Street Schools is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1972. School, workhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Bank Street Schools
- WRENN ID
- calm-cornice-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1972
- Type
- School, workhouse
- Address
- Bank Street Schools, TN9 1BL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 590 467
- Coordinates
- 51.19744, 0.27437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bank Street Schools, originally constructed in the 18th century, served as the local workhouse until 1836. The original building was two storeys high, constructed of red brick with grey headers, and featured nine windows and stringcourses above the ground floor. In the 19th century, a third storey was added, faced with tiles and incorporating a central gable with scalloped bargeboards. This third storey also includes three smaller gables above the outer windows on each side. 19th-century casement windows are found throughout, with those on the ground floor having cambered head linings. A large, modern window is positioned centrally on the top floor, beneath the main gable. Square-headed doorways, dated to the 19th-century alterations, are located at each end and are topped with dripstones.
Local climate
Bank Street Schools 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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