Travis Studio

Travis Studio is a charity school that was built in 1863 and is now used as a sculptor's studio. It features ashlar sandstone dressings on red brick laid in English bond and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is single storey with a twin-gabled front, a bell turret with a spire at the center, and small gabled side porches, all designed in the Gothic Revival style. The walls are rendered below a moulded plinth band, with ashlar quoins. Each gable has an inscribed panel that reads 'TRAVIS'S CHARITY SCHOOL' and 'FOUNDED 1770 ERECTED 1863', positioned beneath the sill of a square-headed three-light window that has Decorated-style tracery and is topped with a brick relieving arch. The central octagonal bell turret features buttressing and corbelling, with foiled openings beneath gablets and two offsets at the base of the spirelet. The flanking gables also have foiled openings, shaped kneelers, and copings with apex finials. The porches, set back on each side, have double doors and overlights under pointed arches with hoodmoulds that have carved stops, along with shaped kneelers and gable copings. The main building includes lateral stacks and ridge ventilators. There are 20th-century additions to the rear that are not of special interest. Inside, the original roof is exposed in the right-hand part and features arch-braced trusses, each with two collars linked by a braced post.