Croft Infant School

Croft Infant School is a junior school built in 1907, designed by architect Percy Bond Houfton. The building is constructed of red brick, which is pebble-dashed up to the sill height, and features stone, brick, and tile dressings. It has steeply pitched red plain tile roofs with tall brick vent stacks on the rear slopes.

The school has an X-shaped plan, consisting of four four-bay classroom wings set at 45-degree angles to a central three-bay hall. It is a single-storey building with attics. The south elevation showcases a gabled central hall built on a stone base up to sill level, flanked by two stepped, nearly full-height buttresses with stone offsets. The second stage features tile decoration and gableted tops, which frame central double glazed doors beneath a segmental arch. Similar doors are located on either side, and above them is a large segment-headed four-light timber mullion and transomed window with a tile hoodmould, flanked by two-light timber mullion windows, also with tile hoodmoulds. The gable above displays diamond tile decoration, and at the centre of the roof ridge sits an octagonal cupola with a leaded base, louvred arcaded sides, and a domed top that supports a weathervane.

The south-east and south-west wings have pairs of three-light timber mullion and transomed windows, with three-light timber mullioned gabled roof dormers above. The south-west wing was extended to the south-west and north-east in the 21st century. The central bay and the two end bays are gabled, featuring three-light mullioned and double transomed timber windows beneath a continuous tile dripmould, with diamond tile decoration on the gables. The ends of the gabled bays have catslide roofs. The north-east and north-west wings are similarly detailed. The entrance on the north elevation is through a low single-storey porch with double doors set at angles to the corners, featuring four three-light windows on the porch front and large hopper heads for the gutters decorated with small hearts.