Lamberhust Primary School

The Lamberhurst Primary School was built between 1834 and 1836, with significant extensions in 1846-56 and again in 1877. Designed by Hooker of Brenchley, it is constructed of red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings and a plain tiled roof. The building has a plinth, string course, and quoins, with projecting end bays and three shaped gables to the central section and each end gable. A prominent clock tower is set into the re-entrant angle on the left side, featuring a broach spire and lucarnes; moulded stacks are located on the end right and to the left. The clock tower has stone mullioned windows, while the rest of the building has wooden mullioned and transomed windows, with label hoods over the gables. The main front has five bays, including the tower. A boarded door is set within a four-centred arched surround in a gabled porch projecting from the clock tower, and a similar doorway is on the right return. A plaque in the left gable, the former Master's House, bears the initials W.A.M., commemorating William Morland, whose £200 legacy in 1846 funded the original single-storey block’s extension, raising, and decoration. A date plaque on the right gable records the 1877 addition of that wing.