Gibbon's School is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1952. School. 2 related planning applications.
Gibbon's School
- WRENN ID
- secret-kitchen-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1952
- Type
- School
- Address
- Gibbon's School, the Street, Benenden, TN17 4DB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 809 329
- Coordinates
- 51.06692, 0.58113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gibbon's School is a headmaster's house and primary school canteen, dated 1609 on a wooden board under the eaves with the inscription "Edmund Gibbon founder of this school." The building was refaced in the early 19th century. It is timber-framed, with a red brick ground floor and scalloped tiles on the first floor. The roof is an old plain tiled design with a central cruciform brick stack.
The structure has two storeys and four bays. On the first floor, there are four 19th-century casements: two are three-light, one is two-light, and one is four-light. The ground floor features a four-light 19th-century casement on the right side, a doorcase with a flat wooden hood on brackets, and a six-flush panel door where the top two panels are glazed. There are also two four-light casements and two additional six-panelled doors. A hipped weather hood links these elements with a two-light casement in between.
The left side elevation has a weatherboarded gable and an early 19th-century brick lean-to, while the right side elevation is entirely weatherboarded and features a moulded bressumer to the gable, likely from the early 19th century. Both gables have carved wooden brackets. Inside, the building includes jowled posts and beams with lamb's tongue stops, and six-panelled early 19th-century doors.
Local climate
Gibbon's School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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