Durham School Luce Music Centre And Porter'S Lodge Adjoining

The Durham School Luce Music Centre and adjoining porter's lodge is a building constructed between 1889 and 1904 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. It features a combination of a lodge, gymnasium, music room, workshop, and laboratory, all now serving as a music building. The structure is made of hammer-dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, designed in a Free Jacobean style.

The building is two storeys tall with five bays on one side and one storey with attics and six bays on the other, totaling eleven bays. The left side has a canted two-storey porch in the fifth bay, which includes a Tudor-arched door with Gothic tracery, dated 1904, and carved spandrels. Above the door is a raised panel featuring a coat of arms in a stepped moulded surround, with small windows on either side. The upper windows are stone-mullioned and transomed, situated under a parapet adorned with a Tudor flower string and roll-moulded coping. The ground floor windows consist of one, two, and three lights, while the high windows above resemble those of the porch and break the eaves under gabled dormers that have moulded, flat-ended copings. The porch window contains heraldic glass.

On the right side, there are five bays, including a central three-bay pent extension with a central door under an attic gable. This door has a flat Tudor-arched surround, with a carved panel above it dated 1899, flanked by ogee-coped pilasters beneath a continuous cornice, and cross windows on either side. Above are two-light windows, and a clock with the inscription "FLOREAT DUNELMIA" is positioned above the door. The gable flanking the clock features four-light dormers. The left end bay has a plain door and window on the ground floor, while a one-bay right wing includes a three-light mullioned and transomed window under a gable. The steeply-pitched roof boasts a massive corniced chimney on the left end, a battlemented chimney at the center rear, and a plain chimney on the right. Ball finials adorn the gables.