Headmaster'S House, Oswestry School

The Headmaster's House at Oswestry School is a house built around 1776, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of red brick and features a double-span slate roof with stone coping and a flat top on the right gable end. The house has an external end stack on the left (rear gable) and another stack positioned in front of the ridge to the left of center, along with an axial valley stack on the right. It stands two storeys high with a gable-lit attic over a basement, and has a moulded stone eaves cornice and kneelers at the corners. The front has four windows, which are glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, and a central entrance that includes a Roman Doric porch with two pairs of coupled columns and a moulded entablature, leading to late 19th-century half-glazed double doors. The rear of the house has five windows, with the central three forming a pedimented break. There is a long two-storey range from the late 18th or early 19th century set back to the left, but the later 19th and 20th-century additions to the rear and left are not of special architectural interest. The Oswestry Grammar School relocated to this site in 1776, and the headmaster's house was one of the first buildings completed.