The South 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. A Victorian School.

The South Half of the Main School Buildings Tonbridge School

WRENN ID
sunken-fireplace-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 January 1972
Type
School
Period
Victorian
Address
The South Half of the Main School Buildings Tonbridge School, High Street
OS grid reference
TQ 590 469
Coordinates
51.19996, 0.27553
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The South half of the main School Buildings at Tonbridge School was built in 1864 and designed by architect E H Burnell. This structure is a notable example of mid-Victorian "Gilbert Scott" Gothic architecture. It stands three storeys tall and features twelve windows, constructed from sandstone ashlar. The building has a castellated parapet and a blue slate roof, which includes two horizontal lines of five courses each of green slates inserted along the center.

The building is divided into two sections by a small central tower. The south section contains six windows on the ground floor, each with three trefoil-headed lights and stone mullions. The first floor has square-headed windows with stone transoms and mullions, while the second floor features pairs of trefoil-headed lancets. The tower rises four storeys and is supported by buttresses at the corners, with a four-light oriel window on the first floor.

The north section has six pointed windows, each consisting of two trefoil-headed lancets that extend from the ground to the first floor. Additionally, there is one window bay with square-headed windows on both floors, each containing four lights with two transoms. The second floor of this section is adorned with fourteen trefoil-headed lancets.

Local climate

The South 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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