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A long stone building with gabled dormers and two small statues set in the wall above a central doorway behind a tall hedge.

School Borough Green, pre 1919

The School, Burrough Green

History of the School

Listed Building

School dated 1714, date on plaster panel in gable wall partly covered by extension in 1877 when it became the National School; cross-wing built c.1920 with plaque ‘1914-1919’.

Stone building facade with a central closed door beneath two arched niches containing carved figures, flanked by arched windows.

Old entrance of school, Burrough Green (L Cobbett)

Two round arch niches above, one to left hand of girl with inscription ‘TRAIN UP A CHILD’, one to right hand of a boy with inscription ‘NAKED AND YE CLOTHED ME’. Two large round arched hung sash windows shaped to arch. Rusticated quoins; moulded cornice. Original school built with money from the will of Samuel Richardson.

Two stone statues of children in niches on a building facade, with a metal bell bracket mounted to the wall on the right.

The School, Burrough Green (RGL2024)

Two stone figures of a boy and a girl stand in recessed arched niches set into a light-colored masonry wall.

The School, Burrough Green (RGL2024)

Stone building with a patterned tile roof and slate roof, featuring arched windows and two small sculpted figures in niches.

The School, Burrough Green (RGL2024)

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