Former Simpson Street Secondary School

The Former Simpson Street Secondary School, now used as workshops, was built in 1883 and is possibly designed by G.A. Middlemiss. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof adorned with terracotta ridge cresting and stone gable coping. It is a long, two-storey structure with a left tower situated on rising ground, displaying some Gothic architectural details.

The exterior consists of a layout with a total of 22 windows arranged in a pattern of 3:4:4:8:3. The left end features a canted return to Simpson Street, marked by a slightly projecting polygonal tower. The near-central and right end groups of windows also project slightly under their respective gables. A plain door with an overlight is set back under a flat stone lintel to the right of the tower. To the left of the central gabled section, there are plain double doors beneath flat stone lintels, with a blind panel above, located under the third window in the 8-bay section.

The building has chamfered stone lintels and sills for paired 4-pane sashes on the first floor at the front of the left tower, with a single sash window below. The near-central gable features raised segment heads in a drip string above the ground floor windows and left door. A similar drip moulding is present over the triple windows in the right gabled section and over the central pair in the 8-bay group. The stone-transomed first-floor windows break through the eaves in a dormer with a hipped roof.

At the peak of the central gable, there is a 6-foil roundel, and a raised drip moulding is found over the paired overlights to a group of three first-floor windows in the right gable peak. The left tower is topped with an octagonal hipped roof that has swept eaves leading to a spirelet on an open belfry, and a chimney rises through the eaves at the right front of the building.