Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1837 to 1980.

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1837 AD to 1980 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 64 NW CAPEL FIVE OAK GREEN ROAD (north side) 1/250 Capel County Primary School, including boundary wall to the south II
School and former masters house. Circa 1870-80. Flemish bond brick with decorative bands of black brick and buff-coloured sandstone ashlar detail; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; red tile roof.
Plan: Long block set back from the road and facing south south east, say south. In the centre the former masters house stands taller than the school blocks each side. It has a T-plan. The main block has 2 rooms, each with a gable-end stack backing onto the school blocks beyond. Front doorway to left with stair rising from the entrance hall. A lower one-room plan parlour block projects forward at right angles heated by a stack backing onto the main block. Each side are the school blocks, the left (west) one a little shorter than the right one. Each has a one-room plan front wing, the left one at the end but the right one a bay short of that end. Both schools have an axial stack where the front wing roof meets the main block. Masters house is 2 storeys, the school blocks are single storey and there are various crica 1970 extensions to rear.
Exterior: High Victorian Gothic style. At first glance front appears symmetrical but it is not really so. 1:2:3:2:1:1-window front. The gable-end fronts of the front wings each contain a tall stone arch-headed and transomed window with plate tracery. A stone string course which runs across the whole front rises to the sill of these windows which also interrupt a band of black brick. Diagonal buttresses and in the gable the purlins are supported by shaped timber brackets. The front of each school main block has stone shoulder headed lights; 2 2-light windows to left of the former masters house and these separated by a, buttress and 2 3-light windows to right with another 2-light window at the end, beyond the front wing. The doorway to the left block is next to the master's house, a kind of shouldered pointed arch in stone. The doorway to the right block is into a lean-to alongside the front wing that end. All the doorways contain original plank doors with ornate Gothick-style strap hinges.
The centre bay of the masters house projects forward and has a ground floor bay window and first floor oriel on shaped timber brackets. Both contain timber mullion-and-transom window. Gable above has bargeboards supported by pairs of shaped timber brackets. To left, flush with the main school is the doorway, a stone shoulder headed arch with slit windows above lighting the stairs. To right a ground floor shoulder-headed arch contains a mullion-and- transom window and the first floor casements above is a gabled half dormer. Eaves cornice of cogged brick (similar cornices to the chimneyshafts). Tall roof is gable-ended and each end contains tall arch-headed stone windows with plainer tracery than those at the front. Towards the left end a timber bellcote rises from the ridge and has a tall spire-like roof.
Interior: Not inspected.
Along the front of the property is a low brick wall with a brick dentil cornice and weathered coping. It is contemporary with the school. Square section gate posts in the same style with pyramid caps. The left gate post in front of the former masters house includes a Victorian post box.
Listing NGR: TQ6391945118
(1)

A VR wall box is mounted in the gate post of the school. It is a Type C - low aperture (cipher 2 1/8" from top of box). It dates from 1886-1901. (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> The Letter Box Study Group, 2004, Letter Box Listing (Unpublished document). SKE17125.

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