Wye College, Entrance And Hall Quadrangles

TR 0446 0546 WYE HIGH STREET (north side)

8/264 Wye College, Entrance and Hall 13.10.52 quadrangles

GV II

College quadrangles. 1893-5, 1901, 1903-6 and 1912-14 (executed 1928) Architects P.B. chambers (1893-5), T.E. Colcutt (1901) and Colcutt and Hamp (1905-6/1912). Ragstone with red brick over, and with timber framing with red brick infill. Plain tiled roof. Entrance: 2 storey range with kneelered parapet gables and projecting central gabled gateway; stacks to end left, centre left and to right. Ten mullioned lights on 1st floor (pairs and triplets), and cusped and with label hoods on ground floor. Four centred arched gateway with label hood, and 3 light Perpendicular style windows over. Right return (the library) with 2 storey brick range with mullioned and transomed lights broken only by oriel to centre left. Inner court: rear of entrance block with exposed timber frame over open timber arcade. Pierced and moulded barge-board to jettied gable with oriel over gateway. Brick inner wall with mullioned windows. Two storey brick ranges opposite (the library, with barrel vault ceiling interior, with gable and oriel opposite entrance. Second count including exterior of C15. Hall range (with C20 bay as also to parlour) and 2 storey C20 blocks, brick on flint, with some C18 with glazing bar sashes, otherwise mullioned windows. Four centred arched gateway with iron screen dated 1906. Dining Hall 1910, built as gymnasium, separating the 2 quadrangles. Single storey, with large mullioned and transomed windows with parapet and buttresses. Interior: cruck trussed and arcaded interior with contemporary panelling and chandeliers and other fittings. Further, later C20 quadrangles and blocks to the north. (See Orwin and Williams, Wye Church and Wye College).

Listing NGR: TR0552146849