The Maynard Wing, Kings College

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TQ2585NW KIDDERPORE AVENUE 798-1/24/982 (North side) 16/01/96 The Maynard Wing, King's College

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Student residences. 1889. By Robert Falconer Macdonald. Red brick with rubbed brick and Roman cement dressings. Tiled hipped roofs with gabled dormers to south front, tall brick chimney-stacks and fishscale tiled clock tower. 2 storeys, attics and semi-basement. William and Mary style. Symmetrical design. 20 windows. Entrance in double gabled central, recessed bay with pedimented Ionic surround to round-arched doorway approached by curved double steps with stone balustrade. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sashes with shaped rubbed brick aprons and continuous sill bands; paired above entrance and grouped in gabled flanking and outer bays. Heavy modillion eaves cornice carries up around gables, the flanking and outer bays containing Venetian attic windows. North front plainer but with similar brick detailing and central 3-storey projecting polygonal bay. INTERIOR: plain with rooms arranged off long corridors. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as a result of an open competition to provide expanded accommodation for Westfield College. The brief called for a scheme "showing economy with good effect".

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