Xaverian College, Part Of, And Attached Archway

Xaverian College, part of, and attached archway, is a villa built between 1874 and 1875 by Alfred Waterhouse for T.R. Heatherington. It is now part of a sixth form college. The building is constructed of red brick with blue brick bands and features tiled roofs with cockscomb ridges. It has a roughly rectangular plan, with later additions to the rear, and is two-and-a-half storeys tall, plus a tower.

The design includes two saw-tooth bands between floors and steeply-pitched gabled roofs. At the right-hand corner, where the front range meets the rear wing, there is a rectangular tower with a gabled wooden porch on its north side. This porch has open sides and a fishscale tiled roof, along with various small windows, a shield on the east side, a stylised Lombard frieze, and a steep saddleback roof with cresting along the ridge.

To the left of the tower is a diagonally-set gabled bay that features two tall sash windows on the ground floor, two similar windows and a balcony with wrought-iron railings on the first floor, and coupled smaller windows above. At the left end of the facade is another gabled bay with three similar windows on both the ground and first floors, and coupled windows above, with the ground floor windows protected by a tiled pentice roof. The main range between these bays includes a dormer window with a half-hipped roof and a finial. Most windows have square-paned leaded glazing, with some featuring stained glass.

The left return wall, or south front, is longer and has similar fenestration, including a pentice roof on the ground floor and two similar dormers. Attached to the north side of the building is a tall two-centred archway with a steeply pitched gable and a ball finial.