King's School With Walls Attached Maclean House With Walls Attached
KING'S SCHOOL WITH WALLS ATTACHED, THE PRECINCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086424
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- King's School With Walls Attached Maclean House With Walls Attached
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S SCHOOL WITH WALLS ATTACHED, THE PRECINCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086424
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- King's School With Walls Attached Maclean House With Walls Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING'S SCHOOL WITH WALLS ATTACHED, THE PRECINCT
- Statutory Address 2:
- MACLEAN HOUSE WITH WALLS ATTACHED, THE PRECINCT
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S SCHOOL WITH WALLS ATTACHED, THE PRECINCT
- Statutory Address:
- MACLEAN HOUSE WITH WALLS ATTACHED, THE PRECINCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74271 68404
Details
ROCHESTER THE PRECINCT TQ 7468 SW 9/195 King's School (Maclean House) with walls attached II Former Canon's house, now part of King's School. 1841, designed by Lewis Vulliamy; enlarged in 1911. 'Tudor domestic' style. Red brick in Flemish bond; stone plinth and basement; stucco dressings. Kent tile gable end roofs. Central staircase plan. 2 storeys with basement and attic. Front: symmetrical 2:1:2 window range, the central bay projecting an rising a full 3 storeys under a gable with stone coping and polygonal brick stacks with stone caps to kneelers and gable wall apex. Central porch with 4-centred arched doorway, advanced to frontage of site and attached to flanking rubble ragstone walls. 2-light casement windows throughout, except for single-light slit windows to either side of centre bay; string course connects hood moulds of 1st floor windows and returns along end elevations. Quoining o all angles. One and 2-light windows to end elevations with clustered shafts to gable stacks. Cluster of 6 shafts to rear stack of front range. The 1911 rear extension carefully designed to complement the original range. Interior: open well stair rises arond central entrance hall. Date and architect in toward Colvin, A Biblioqraphical Dictionary of British Architects (1978) p 858.
Listing NGR: TQ7427168410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173127
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 858
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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