St Anselm'S Junior School (Redcourt)

St Anselm’s Junior School (Redcourt) is a house, built between 1876 and 1879 for George Rae, and now used as a school. It was designed by Edmund Kirby. The building is of red brick with red sandstone dressings and a plain tiled roof, constructed in a simplified Tudor style with an expressive asymmetrical plan. The house is three storeys high. The front elevation has three bays, with a moulded brick arched doorway on the right. A central, advanced gabled bay features mullioned and transomed windows. The left-hand bay also has mullioned and transomed windows, with a hipped dormer window above. A stack is slightly corbelled out to the right of the doorway and features an inscription stone bearing the words: "Redcourt built in the years 1876-9 by George Rae. God's Providence mine inheritance." The right-hand return elevation has a central stack and an advanced gable to the right, with a six-light mullioned and transomed window to the ground and first floors, and a five-light mullioned window to the attic. A four-light mullioned window with a transom is situated in the left-hand bay, and narrow lights are within the chimney on the ground and first floors. The rear elevation incorporates a full-height canted bay to the right, and an asymmetrical gable to the left. It features paired three-light mullioned windows in a central section to the first floor, a four-light mullioned window with a transom to the ground floor, and a four-light mullioned window to the attic. A lower service wing is located to the right. Subtle brick detailing is present throughout, with simply moulded string courses and eaves stressed by deep bands of slightly stepped brickwork. Gable and axial stacks possess star-shaped or octagonal shafts.