Pears School, Repton School

This building, Pears School at Repton School, is a memorial hall and classrooms constructed between 1883 and 1886, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield. It is built in the Tudor style using coursed squared sandstone and ashlar, with a plain tile roof, moulded coped gables featuring plain kneelers, and battlemented parapets.

The north elevation is five bays wide, divided by buttresses with three set-offs. A chamfered band runs along the first floor, alongside a sill band and a band at the base of the parapet. The ground floor’s central three bays contain mullioned and transomed windows of 2-1-2 lights, with arched lights above. The right-hand bay has two similar cross windows, also with segmental relieving arches. The left-hand bay features a blind segmental arch containing a doorway and a segmental pointed window. The first floor has cross windows in bays one and three, taller paired 2-light windows with two transoms appearing under gables in bays two and four, and a 3-light transomed window in bay five. A balustraded staircase leading to first-floor entrances was added to the west elevation in the 1920s. This includes three doorways, and a prominent canted oriel above with a moulded underside and 2-3-2 light mullion windows, flanked by single-light transomed windows. A segmental arched 3-light window features in the gable, with a gabled hoodmould spanning the facade and flanked by polygonal castellated angle turrets with diagonal buttresses.

The south elevation also has five bays divided by buttresses. The right-hand bay includes a square projection with two 4-light windows, the lower one being transomed. An open gothic arcade is positioned to the left, comprising 1-2-1 lights with double chamfered arches. Classrooms on the ground floor have 3-light mullioned windows, and the four bays above mirror the north elevation. A castellated polygonal turret is located at the south east.

The interior has classrooms on the ground floor, and a large assembly hall above. The assembly hall features an impressive hammer beam roof composed of five bays with intermediate scissor braced trusses and two tiers of purlins with arched braces. The hall also contains armorial and figurative stained glass.