Description

WANTA6E PORTWAY 5U3987 (North side) 7/149 King Alfred's School 22/04/50 (Formerly listed as King Alfred Grammar School, central block)

GV II

School. 1849-50 by J.B. Clacy, and 1872-3 by William Butterfield, with later additions. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings; stone slate roof; stone stack. Complex plan. Gothic Revival style. Central block of 2 storey, 5-window range. 2-storey central gabled porch with offset angle buttresses; 2-light Geometrical style window over double-chamfered doorways with plank doors and fittings. 2-light mullioned ground-floor windows; pointed lancets to gabled half-dormers above. Moulded kneelers and stepped coping stones to all gable walls. Gabled roof; rear lateral stack. Similar one-storey, one-bay range to left of front has pentice attached to chapel in similar style and with 2-light late C13 style windows in side walls; west wall has gabled bellcote over 3-light late C13 style window. Asymmetrical schoolmaster's house attached to right of front is in similar style with stone ridge stack and 2-light transomed windows with square and pointed heads: similar later C19 extension to right of darker limestone and with old tile roof. One storey and attic, 4-window range to rear by William Butterfield, 1872-3, of English bond brick with gabled old tile roof, brick ridge stack and offset lateral stack; 2-light flanked by 3-light chamfered stone-mullioned sash windows with chamfered brick jambs and 2-light casements with overlights to hipped dormers. Interior: Front block has much restored Norman doorway from the "Latin School" in the churchyard. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.254; Paul Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971, pp.396, 435; VCH: Berkshire, Vol IV, p.320).

Listing NGR: SU3962787676

External Links

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