Women's Hostel at Wye College
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The west study-bedroom wing from the south, built as part of stage 1
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Residence built for one hundred women students and teaching staff including a library, assembly hall, and staff, music, quiet and reading rooms
Each private room was designed to provide students with a space for study, and to socialise with other students. There are three types of bed-siting rooms: small rooms of 11m2, larger rooms which include more space for storage, and two rooms with a bathroom to be shared within each flat.
On each floor there are several small common rooms, for use as committee rooms or social use, and a small number of kitchens.
The cross walls of the building are load bearing brick and concrete blocks supporting the hollow tile floor slabs. The concrete blocks are carried into the roof to support the precast concrete purlins of the pitched roofs.
The external walls are sand-face bricks, and the entrance is faced with Clipsham stone. The boxed out window frames are precast concrete and the window frames are timber painted white.
The entrance lounge hall consists of plaster on walls, celling and columns have been left with the natural wood rough finish. The floor is medium cork colour, and the windows, doors and staircase handrail are in mahogany waxed polished.
Data
- Completed: 1950
- Sectors: Residential, Education
- Address: Wye College, High Street, Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom
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Professional Team
- Architect: Richard Sheppard
- Project architects: J. Shufflebothom, Richard Sheppard
- Client: Wye College
