Description
David Bryce, 1871-1872; enlarged, 1892, new window by Sir
Robert Rowand Anderson, 1895, interior renovation, A F
Balfour Paul, 1936, and restored after fire, Anderson
Kininmonth and Paul, 1963. 2-storey and attic rambling
plan restrained Baronial, residential block, including
lower 2-storey wing. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble
with ashlar dressings. Base and string courses. Stone
mullions and transoms at intervals; variety of architraved
and mannered surrounds to windows. House master's house to E,
with entrance in advanced gabled bay with chamfered corners
and jettied gablehead; hoodmoulded pointed arch door.
Entrance to student house in recessed gabled bay by re-
entrant angle to right; rectangular fanlight above stone
lintel. Low 2-storey wing to outer right comprised of 3
gabled bays single window to each floor at centre and 2
windows to each floor in outer bays; gablehead stacks;
detailed similarly at rear. Single storey projection to main
block at rear. Metal fire escape. Canted bay to S elevation
with gablehead with curved mitre above; single storey
canted bay projecting at ground; decorative timber barge
boarding retained to gablehead and 2 attic
dormers breaking eaves.
Sash and case windows: plate glass and small-plane glazing
patterns. Heavily corniced ashlar stacks, broad stacks
panelled. Grey-green slates. Gablet coping to skews. Some
gablet crowsteps to house master's house.
INTERIOR: study rooms around galleried hall with gabled
lantern in lower 2-storey wing; boarded dado at ground
and sliding doors; barley sugar timber balustrade and
turned colonettes. Senior dormitory with wainscot-high
boarded timber cubicle divisions; cast-iron columns.