Queen Annes School

Queen Anne's School is a municipal secondary school for girls, built between 1908 and 1910. It was designed by Walter Brierley for the York Education Committee. The building is constructed of red brick with orange brick and ashlar dressings, topped with plain tile roofs. It features a square louvred cupola on a lead base with a pyramidal lead roof and weather vane, along with two tall brick banded chimney stacks.

The school is two storeys high, with the south-west facade displaying 15 windows arranged in a pattern of 3:4:1:4:3. All windows have glazing bars and orange brick lintels on the ground floor. The central bay and end pavilions project slightly, featuring raised quoins. The central bay and the central bays of the pavilions have wider windows topped with segmental pediments, flanked by pilasters, projecting balconies, and tall upper windows that extend into the pediments.

On the north-east facade, there is a recessed hall block in the centre with a single-storey entrance block in front. The entrance features a central moulded ashlar door surround flanked by single 3-light mullion toilet windows, with two glazing bar sashes on either side, also with orange brick heads. The hall block behind has five round-headed windows with raised keystones, moulded impost bands, and banded rustication below, with raised brick aprons at eaves level.

The projecting wings on either side have a blank ground floor; the right wing features a large 7-light window and a segment-headed dormer window above, while the left wing has three blank panels with a segment-headed dormer window above. The side facades include six glazing bar windows on the ground floor with orange brick lintels, and above them are large S-light through eaves dormer windows.

Queen Anne's School is noted as a fine example of Walter Brierley's work, who was a pioneering designer of schools in this architectural style. Later additions to the building are not considered to be of special interest.