Southcoates Lane Education Centre

The Southcoates Lane Education Centre, originally a school designed by Joseph H Hirst, the City Architect, was built in 1910-11. Later additions and alterations occurred around 1990. The building is constructed of red brick with roughcast and colourwashed first floor, red brick and stone dressings, and has gabled and hipped plain tile roofing with a single gable stack. A first-floor band, brick quoins, dentillated eaves and pedimented gables—each featuring a round window with four brick keystones—are prominent.

The building is two storeys high and has nine by six window arrangement. A hipped central block is flanked by parallel ranges with end pavilions roofed at right angles. Most windows are tilting sash casements with brick surrounds and flat arches featuring stepped brick keystones. The east front presents four windows centrally, with a large Diocletian window to the right, featuring stone mullions, transoms, voussoirs and keystone. Below the Diocletian window are four windows, three partly reglazed, and to the right, a segment-headed door and window with keystones. The left wing has a reglazed single window on the first floor, and below it, a smaller three-light mullioned window. The right wing has a central window flanked by smaller windows on each floor.

The west front has a recessed central bay with a stepped coped parapet. A Diocletian window with a tall keystone is flanked by smaller windows, all under a dentillated segmental pediment. Below this are tripartite windows flanked by smaller windows, and below them, a low full-width projection with three segment-headed openings containing iron gates and a hipped clerestorey roof. The left pavilion has a blank first floor and a central window below. The right pavilion has three windows, with a segment-arched stone doorway with a moulded head and keystone, and doors with glazing bar overlights, above and to the right, a small window. The rear elevation has similar fenestration. At the time of survey, the building was clad in screened scaffolding.