Cottesmore School

Cottesmore School
Established 1894[1]
Type Prep School
Religion Christian
Headmaster Tom F Rogerson
Founder Geoffrey Davison Brown
Location Buchan Hill
Pease Pottage
West Sussex
RH11 9AU
England
51°05′15″N 0°12′58″W / 51.08758°N 0.21605°W / 51.08758; -0.21605Coordinates: 51°05′15″N 0°12′58″W / 51.08758°N 0.21605°W / 51.08758; -0.21605
DfE URN 126106
Students 175
Gender Coeducational
Ages 4–13
Houses Clives, Drakes, Haigs, Scotts
Colours Blue and pink
Website www.cottesmoreschool.com

Cottesmore is an academic preparatory school in the United Kingdom, which has been preparing children for public schools since 1894. It is predominantly full boarding and there are 175 boys and girls from the ages of 4 to 13. Boarding starts at Year 4.

Cottesmore is surrounded by 1000 acres of forests and parks (Pease Pottage Forest, Buchan Hill Forest and Cottesmore Golf and Country Club. The pupils can use 35 acres (140,000 m2) of its own grounds, the setting for its playing fields, cricket pitches, two astroturf fields, all-weather cricket nets, grass and hard tennis courts, golf course, lake and gardens.

History

Cottesmore was founded by Geoffrey Davison Brown in 1894 in Hove, East Sussex. He named the school after Cottesmore, Rutland, where he was born. The new buildings for the preparatory school were officially opened on 19 June 1897.[2]

The school moved to its present site at Pease Pottage after World War II in 1946. The school is housed in a fine, Grade II-listed[3] Victorian mansion known as Buchan Hill that was built in 1882-3 by Philip Felix Renaud Saillard who had made his money from ostrich feathers.[4][5] The building is a large Elizabethan-style house, designed by the architects Ernest George and Harold Peto.[6] Buchan Hill had been purchased in the early 19th century by Hon. Thomas Erskine (Lord Chancellor 1806-1807), son of the Earl of Buchan.

Awards

Cottesmore was the winner of the “Best School Food Award” at the Tatler Schools Awards.[7]

Cottesmore was nominated for Independent School of the Year 2018, at the Independent School Parent Awards. [8]

Cottesmore was nominated for “Best Prep School Award” at the Tatler Schools Award 2017 [9]

Notable alumni

Cottesmore School from the neighbouring golf course

References

  1. ↑ Margaret Smallwood (2008), Cottesmore School (PDF), Independent Schools Inspectorate
  2. ↑ The Morning Post (London, England), Monday, March 29, 1897; pg. 5; Issue 38941. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
  3. ↑ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1027012)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  4. ↑ Mark Girouard (1971), The Victorian Country House, Clarendon Press, p. 8
  5. ↑ Jill Franklin (1981), The Gentleman's Country House and its Plan, 1835-1914, Routledge & Kegan Paul, p. 257
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Main building to Cottesmore School (299316)". Images of England. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  7. ↑ End of school dinners. The Evening Standard, (London, England), Tuesday, September 15, 2009
  8. ↑ Parent, Independent School (25 September 2018). "Independent Schools of the Year 2018 Shortlist Announced - Independent School Parent".
  9. ↑ "Cottesmore".
  10. ↑ The Almost Late Gordon Chater, Bantam Books, 1996, ISBN 9781863597975
  11. 1 2 3 4 Cottesmore School, Educated School Guide
  12. ↑ The Encyclopædia Britannica, 20, 1929
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