King'S School With Walls Attached Maclean House With Walls Attached

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