Entrance Lodge At Ripley St Thomas School

The entrance lodge at Ripley St Thomas School was built in 1885 by the architectural firm Paley and Austin. It is constructed from snecked sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The building is designed in an L-shape, with a gabled cross-wing on the left side. It has one storey with an attic.

The cross-wing includes a single-storey, six-light stone bowed window topped with a coped parapet. The attic is illuminated by a three-light mullioned window with blind trefoil heads. The main section of the lodge has a three-light double-chamfered mullioned window. To the left, at the junction with the cross-wing, there is an open porch that has a slated lean-to roof supported by timber posts, two of which are turned. The posts are connected at the top by flat timber ogee arches and there is a low timber balustrade. The doorway features moulded stone jambs and a shaped lintel inscribed with the date '1885'. Both gables are topped with copings, and there are chimneys with clustered shafts on the left and at the rear towards the right.