Palace Cottage (The Kings School)

Palace Cottage, part of The King's School, is the former coach house, stables, and servant's lodgings of the Bishop's Palace, built in 1861 according to the rainwater heads, with 20th-century alterations. Designed by Ewan Christian, it features ashlar and squared rubble in courses, a slate roof with three bands of white slates on each slope, decorative ridge tiles, coped gables with moulded kneelers, and two tall brick ridge stacks, all in a Tudor style. The building is a long range with the former residential accommodation in the center, extending into a short cross-wing on the south side. The exterior is single storey and attic, with coped gables and irregular fenestration on the north front. The gable-end wall of the rear wing has two two-light stone-framed casements with a central mullion on the ground floor and a similar casement in the gable. The interior has not been inspected. Despite some 20th-century alterations, this building by Christian significantly contributes to the important group of buildings around the Cathedral Precincts.