West Building Of Barnes School

The West Building of Barnes School is a school constructed around 1900. It features bright red brick with terracotta dressings and a slate roof. The building is symmetrical with two storeys and a window arrangement of 2:2:3:5:3:2:2. The right corner has a pentice roof over a two-storey porch supported by thick terracotta columns, leading up to the doors with two windows above. The central section includes five full-height round-arched recesses, separated by finialled lesenes, which contain large windows; the lower windows are square-headed with panelled aprons, while the upper ones are round-headed with arcaded brick-panelled aprons and a top corbel table.

The flanking sections each have three windows on both floors, with the lower three featuring long triple terracotta keys, and the upper three stepped under a central straight dripmould below a raised segmental head of a shaped gable. Stair towers between these sections and the end bays have two small windows below four on the ground floor, plus a further four with an arcaded apron to the central pair, beneath a top single round-headed light in an arched brick panel below the roof parapet. Most windows are designed with mullions and transoms, featuring upper glazing bars, while the round-headed windows have full glazing bars. The end bays have hipped roofs, and the adjacent towers are topped with high swept pyramids and lucarnes. The long central roof includes five hipped dormers and a tapered high ridge ventilator with a domed top.