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Latitude: 51.3879 / 51°23'16"N
Longitude: 0.5032 / 0°30'11"E
OS Eastings: 574271
OS Northings: 168404
OS Grid: TQ742684
Mapcode National: GBR PPN.VDG
Mapcode Global: VHJLT.NCXW
Plus Code: 9F329GQ3+57
Entry Name: King's School with Walls Attached Maclean House with Walls Attached
Listing Date: 2 December 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1086424
English Heritage Legacy ID: 173127
ID on this website: 101086424
Location: Rochester, Medway, Kent, ME1
County: Medway
Electoral Ward/Division: Rochester West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Rochester
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Rochester St Peter Parish Centre
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
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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
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