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
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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