Office building of 1912, built as the drawing and management offices for W A Stevens Ltd, Tilling-Stevens Ltd from 1915.

MATERIALS: the building is of red brick with painted stone dressings and timber horned sash windows.

PLAN: the building has a rectangular plan, aligned roughly north-south with a central entrance in the west, front, elevation facing St Peter’s Street. Entering into a lobby area, there are offices to the north and south and a stair hall to the east. At first floor level rooms are arranged off a spinal corridor to the south and as a single large space to the north. The second floor is housed in the mansard roof space and has a similar arrangement of space as the floor below. The plan has been altered through the insertion of later partitions to subdivide spaces, and possibly the removal of original partitions to open up other spaces.

EXTERIOR: the front elevation is symmetrical and is of two storeys and eleven bays.
The central entrance bay projects and is stuccoed at ground floor with stuccoed quoins above. The doorway has side lights beneath a broken segmental pediment with a dated cartouche and swaged garlands on the tympanum. The door is glazed and is a late C20 replacement. To the first floor there are two twelve-over-one horned sash windows with gauged brick segmental heads and central voussoirs of painted stone. The central bay is flanked at ground and first floor levels by a further five sash windows to either side. A painted stone cornice runs above the windows at ground and first floors and the window sills are linked by a painted stone string course. At the corners are rusticated brick quoins. This architectural treatment continues to the north and east elevations but the south elevation is largely obscured by the adjacent former Tilling-Stevens factory. The roof is a large mansard with central dormer window and roof lights.

INTERIOR: whilst some areas of the ground and first floors retain original joinery, notably a number of door architraves and skirting boards, this is piecemeal. There are lowered ceilings throughout and all fireplaces appear to have been removed. The principal surviving feature of interest is the staircase from the ground to first floor which has an iron balustrade and wreathed handrail. The second floor, beneath the mansard roof, is of late C20 date and does not have any features of interest.

<1> Historic England, 2024, Listing report for Raglan House, St Pater's Street, Maidstone (Unpublished document). SKE57196.