St Helen'S Auckland Junior School And Attached Walls And Railings

St Helen's Auckland Junior School, built around 1900, is a county junior school featuring attached walls and railings. The building is constructed of bright red brick with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof adorned with red ridge tiles and ashlar copings. The design follows a Free Baroque style and consists of a double range with a central rear wing.

The school is a single storey and has windows arranged in groups of three, with a configuration of 6:9:6. The door on the right end is now blocked with a window inserted, but it originally had an ashlar surround with the word "COOKERY" carved below a segmental arch, topped with a ramped parapet. An ashlar sill band runs along the building. All windows feature two-pane lower lights with glazing bars in the upper lights, and a bottom-hinged opening transom light. The side windows in each group have shallow segmental heads, while the central windows are taller.

The three central groups of windows are topped with front gables, flanked by pilasters that rise to the peak of the ashlar gable. Each central window is framed in stone architraves with long voussoirs leading to semicircular heads, creating segmental pediments that project from the roof in the outer groups. The central gabled groups are also flanked by pilasters. The roof features ashlar gable coping on raised kneelers, and the front gables are topped with ball finials on high plinths. There are truncated ridge ventilators and a small brick chimney on the right end, which has an ashlar cornice.

The brick front walls, with ashlar coping, rise to arched entrances that have ashlar bands on the piers and an ashlar lintel with a low segmental head. The left entrance is inscribed "BOYS" and the right "GIRLS" in low relief capitals. Short stretches of wall extend from the ends of the school and connect to the front wall. Wrought-iron gates in each archway are designed with tendril terminals and scrolled patterns.