College Of Further Education

The College of Further Education comprises a main block of 1877, later extensions, and incorporates an early 19th-century house. A separate block to the rear, dated 1900, faces Park Green and incorporates an earlier structure, probably originally a dwelling, but substantially altered during conversion. The main building to Park Lane is constructed of uncoursed freestone with a Welsh slate roof, while the earlier house uses brick with stone dressings. The main block is two storeys and seven windows wide, with a central entrance bay that projects and features a steep dormer gable. The entrance itself has an inner round archway supported by polished granite shafts and a steep outer gable on corbels. Above the archway is a relieving arch with paired lancet windows. Ground-floor windows are eight-pane sash windows with wood transoms, separated by gableted buttresses and surmounted by moulded stone panels. First-floor windows are stilted arched. A corbel table and coped gables are present on each side. A single-storey extension, dated 1913, is set back to the right, featuring three windows on each side and a stilted arched entrance door within an advanced gable. The block to the rear is two storeys high and has a wide, canted gable facing Park Green, with paired lancet windows in each face beneath dormer gables. The first floor has plate traceried windows. The east elevation's entrance is marked by a doorway with an overlight, flanked by two-pane windows and inscribed 'Technical and Science School 1900.' A top-lit rear extension provides studio space. The earlier house incorporated within the 1900 block is two and three storeys high, with a three-window range and an entrance within a moulded stone architrave, above which is a 12-pane sash window. A taller, right-hand block features a full-height canted bay with a tripartite sash window on the ground floor and 16-pane sash windows on the upper floors. A moulded cornice and parapet with a raised central panel complete the facade. A higher parallel range to the rear is symmetrically arranged with three gables.