Former Kingswood School principal block

This is a large villa, originally the principal block of Kingswood School. It was built in 1866 and became part of the school in 1938. The villa is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone dressings, and has a hipped slate roof. It is designed in an Italianate style, consisting of a large, rectangular double-pile block, with a set-back side wing to the right.

The two-storey main range has five bays. The design is symmetrical, with a narrow gabled central section and wider outer bays that project slightly, each featuring rusticated stone quoins. There is a first-floor sill band, a painted panelled frieze, and carved wooden brackets supporting prominent, oversailing eaves.

The central section has a tetrastyle Doric porch with a triglyph frieze, a mutuled cornice with a blocking course, and protects a round-headed doorway with a moulded architrave and panelled double doors. At ground level, the inner bays have coupled round-headed sash windows within keyed architraves, ornamented with Doric colonettes and responds, while the outer bays each feature a large, canted bay window with pilaster mullions, a panelled frieze, and a mutule cornice with a blocking course. The first floor is similarly fenestrated with five round-headed sash windows, those in the centre being rectangular with panelled spandrels, a moulded cornice, and a swept upstand, with keystones to the others. Two corniced chimneys flank the centre bay, and there are side-wall chimneys. The single-window recessed wing to the right is in a similar style.

The left (south) return wall has a projected centre stair window of three tall round-headed lights with stained and painted glass, although the ground floor is now hidden by a 20th-century extension that replaced a former conservatory.

Inside, there is a notable axial hall which exhibits a moulded plaster modillioned cornice, doorways with architraves, and, at the south end, an imperial staircase with cast-iron balusters.