Sevenoaks School - Facilities

Facilities

Two buildings on campus date prior to the 20th century – the Old School House (built in the early 18th century in the Palladian style and reputedly designed by Lord Burlington), and the cottage blocks (both late 19th century). The Johnson Library contains over 24,000 books housed in the old Assembly Hall (1930s). Sevenoaks also has athletics track, indoor tennis centre (The Bailey Tennis Centre), auditorium (the Aisher Hall) and theatre (Sackville Theatre), and a performing arts centre (The Space).

The main school grounds are close to the centre of Sevenoaks town, straddling the A225 Tonbridge Road. Knole Lane also runs through the site, providing access to Knole House, which is situated in the park behind the school.

On 10 March 2005 a new £9 million sports centre, Sennocke Centre, was opened by former middle distance athlete Dame Kelly Holmes. The Sennocke Centre contains three tennis courts, squash courts, a sports hall, a swimming pool, a dance studio, a fitness suite, climbing wall and a servery.

In the April 2010, a new 13-million pound performing arts centre, The Space, was opened on the school campus. The Space was designed by Tim Ronalds Architects and has won several awards: the Commercial & Public Access category in the 2010 Wood Awards, Best Education Building in the 2010 Brick Awards, and an RIBA Award (South East Region) in 2011. The centre contains: The Pamoja Hall, an auditorium providing a concert hall for choral and orchestral performances, with an audience capacity of nearly 450 on raked seating. A renovated Sackville Theatre, with a tension wire grid, providing improved space for larger drama productions. A recital room for more intimate chamber music performance with an audience capacity of about 100. It has views into Knole deer park and provides a venue for special events. The Ordovksy-Tanaevsky Drama Studio provides flexible space for drama productions and audience seating for up to 100. There are also seventeen individual sound-proofed teaching rooms; the Moskovenko Drums Room and Recording Studio; the Pisarev World Music Room; generous foyer space and an outdoor terrace; extensive storage and locker space for musical instruments. The stage of The Pamoja Hall can accommodate the school's seventy piece orchestra behind which the school choir can be positioned. The orientation of the hall uses the natural slope of the site to create the rake for the audience seating. The foyer area links the three levels of the building and provides access to the practice and teaching rooms, the drums room and recording studio, other offices and support facilities. The drama studio is located close to the entrance to the renovated Sackville Theatre. The centre contains 2,733 square metres of usable space. The maximum height of the building is 20.5 metres.