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.
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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.
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 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. The building is a large Elizabethan-style house, designed by the architects Ernest George and Harold Peto. Buchan Hill had been purchased in the early 19th century by Hon. Thomas Erskine (Lord Chancellor 1806-1807), son of the Earl of Buchan.
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Awards
Cottesmore was the winner of the "Best School Food Award" at the Tatler Schools Awards.
Cottesmore was nominated for Independent School of the Year 2018, at the Independent School Parent Awards.
Cottesmore was nominated for "Best Prep School Award" at the Tatler Schools Award 2017
Notable alumni
- Gordon Chater, actor and comedian
- Robert Hanbury Brown, astronomer
- Robin Niblett, director of Chatham House
- Doug Scott (teacher), mountaineer, first Briton to climb Mount Everest
- Thomas Sopwith, aviation pioneer
- Hugo Southwell, rugby union footballer, Scotland
- Luke Wallace, rugby union footballer, Harlequins F.C.
References
External links
- Official school website
- Video of Cottesmore School
- Hove's old schools
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