International House

International House comprises two houses, now used as a student hostel, built between 1877 and 1879. They were likely designed by George Gilbert Scott, Junior, for John Spyvee Cooper. The buildings are constructed of brick with pargeted panels and have hipped roofs covered with plain tiles, each with a single side wall stack. They are executed in the Queen Anne style. A brick plinth and string courses are visible, along with pargeted friezes to the returns and rebated eaves with wooden gutters. Windows are generally set within brick flat arches.

The building at number 96, on the right, features a flat front divided by pargeted panels. A blocked central window is flanked by paired eight-pane sashes, with the left-hand window blocked. Above, a large brick dormer has a segment-headed plain sash flanked by brick pilasters, originally topped with a dome. Smaller hipped dormers with two-light casements are on either side. A round-arched brick doorcase with a hoodmould sits below, above which is a two-light window. The entrance is a 20th-century glazed door with side and top lights. Flanking this are square brick bay windows, each containing a pair of eight-pane sashes. A mid-20th century link building connects to the left, with two 12-pane sashes on each floor.

Number 98, to the left, has a recessed centre with an eight-pane sash above which is a hipped dormer featuring a two-light casement with glazing bars. A projecting brick doorcase with multiple brick keystones provides the entrance, now with a 20th-century half-glazed double door and a cornice, topped by a segment-headed three-pane overlight with wooden mullions. Flanking bays each have a pair of eight-pane sashes, and above them, a shouldered shaped gable with a brick pediment containing a wider eight-pane sash. Below each is a square brick bay window containing a pair of segment-headed eight-pane sashes. The left return has a pair of eight-pane sashes; below, a single-storey 20th-century addition obscures the windows. Rear additions are a three-storey 20th-century construction.

These houses are part of a group of eight designed by Scott and are considered the only surviving examples of his well-regarded domestic architecture, demonstrating his expertise in the Queen Anne style.