Former Narborough Road School

This is a former board school built between 1900 and 1902, with minor additions in the late 20th century. Designed by Edward Burgess for the Leicester School Board, it stands on the south-east side of Narborough Road, Leicester. The school is constructed of red brick with red brick dressings and a plain tile roof.

The building features raised coped gables with octagonal finials. A prominent off-centre ventilation tower has a single round arched opening on each face, octagonal corner pinnacles and a short lead spire. The school is two and three stories high, with a basement and attic. Moulded brick bands define each floor, topped by plain brick parapets. The design follows a central hall plan.

The main facade facing Narborough Road has seven bays. A recessed three-window section sits centrally, flanked by projecting corner towers and further projecting gabled cross wings. The basement level has segment-headed windows. The ground floor features three four-light windows, above which are three tripartite Venetian-style windows, all topped with three broad gables with pinnacles. Corner staircase towers, four stories high with corner buttresses and battlemented parapets, each has two casement windows on the lower floors, and two taller round-headed casement windows at the top. A slightly projecting left cross wing displays three small casements, above which are three similar windows within round-headed arches. A central ashlar plaque, inscribed "Leicester School Board Narborough Road School 1902," is set within a pilaster surround topped with a segmental pediment. Flanking the plaque are single glazing bar sash windows. The projecting right cross wing, four stories high, has four small glazing bar sashes on the lower floors, followed by four large glazing bar sashes, and then four round-headed sashes. The gable has a blocked circular window.

The Noel Street facade has four bays, comprising a three-story block and a two-story block to the right. Two slightly projecting central bays, topped with gables, feature four sashes on each of the three floors. A corner bay to the left has a doorway and two pairs of small casements above which are three arches with two pairs of sashes to the right, and single cross casements to each upper floor, the top one being boarded. The right bay has four sashes on each floor. A two-story block beyond has four casements on each floor, and a blind circular window in the gable above.

The Upperton Road facade exhibits similar fenestration, with Venetian-type windows on the top floor of the two central bays, and a projecting two-story block to the left bay with four glazing bar sashes on each floor.

The rear facade presents a recessed two-story central hall range with six round-headed windows featuring simple three-light tracery on the upper floor. This school was the last and largest designed by Edward Burgess for the Leicester School Board.