Wapping Road School with attached steps and boundary walls

Wapping Road School is a board school dating from 1877, with subsequent additions and alterations in 1882, 1897, and the 20th century. The building is constructed of rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and has Welsh slate roofs, designed in a Renaissance Revival style.

The school is composed of two principal blocks situated on a steeply sloping site. The left block is single-storey with a basement, comprising seven bays by three, and features a chamfered plinth, sill band, string course, and eaves detail. It has hipped and gabled roofs with coped gables and two coped ridge stacks. Windows are predominantly cross-mullioned, with stone mullions and transoms, some reglazed in the late 20th century. The basement has a central double door with glazing bar overlight within a plain chamfered surround. Above, a central five-light window is flanked by projecting bays with blank basements and shouldered coped gables with finials. A round arched recess, flanked by pilasters and containing a cross-mullioned window, is positioned centrally, with single, similar windows on either side. Each end has a projecting bay with a hipped roof and a four-light window. The left return side has stepped-head cross casements to the right and a single light and further cross casements to the left. The rear has five gabled ranges, single-storey, each with cross-mullioned windows. At the left end is a similar range, one bay by three, with gabled and hipped ends and cross casements. Attached to the rear are a playshed and entrance bay, constructed in two units, one and two bays wide.

The right block, also single-storey with a basement, is six bays by three and exhibits similar detailing. It has gabled and hipped roofs with three ridge stacks, two having paired flues. In the centre are four round-arched basement openings, now glazed. Above are four cross-casements. Projecting end bays have coped gables with finials. The left wing includes a single round arched window and a 20th-century lean-to porch; the right wing has two round arched windows. Above are round arched recesses with hood moulds, each containing a three-light window. To the right is a gabled wing set back, featuring a cross-casement to the left and a four-light window to the right. The rear has gabled wings at each end, the left one being larger with a hipped projection in the return angle.

The interior of the left block includes a hall divided by a folding panelled screen, featuring an arch braced roof (ceiled in the 20th century) and a matchboard dado. A smaller hall includes similar details plus a round-arched stone fireplace with a keystone. The classrooms are plain, with glazing bar windows overlooking the hall. The right block has large classrooms, formerly divided by glazed screens, and two large roll-moulded stone fireplaces. The swimming pool retains original tile lining and glazed brick wall panels.

Outside, a stone staircase with an intermediate landing and balustrade walls with chamfered coping sits between the main blocks, accompanied by a similar curving staircase to the right. A rockfaced stone boundary wall encloses the site, featuring chamfered coping and renewed railing between piers to the front. Gabled stone coping is present along the sides and rear.