Glyde House

Glyde House is a building that was originally constructed as a chapel school in 1862, named after the popular minister Jonathan Glyde, who founded the Town Mission. The design was the winning entry by Lockwood and Mawson in a competition held in 1860. Although the chapel has since been demolished, the remaining school is a two-storey structure raised on a podium basement, designed in a restrained Dutch Jacobean Renaissance style.

The building features shaped gabled wings that flank a recessed center, which is screened by a columned loggia. It is constructed from pitched face sandstone "bricks" with ashlar dressings. The ground floor of the wings has faceted-block banded quoin pilasters, with rusticated quoins above. Obelisk finials are positioned at the gable copings. The loggia has two columns with faceted-block shafts and a pierced parapet above. The ground floor windows have bold, spaced voussoirs to their arches, while the first-floor windows of the wings are adorned with more Baroque detailing, including aedicule surrounds with segmental open pediments and pierced stone balconettes. The roofs are covered with Welsh slate and feature moulded stone eaves. Glyde House is prominently located on the hillside at the foot of Little Horton Lane.