Hargreaves School

Hargreaves School is a building dating from 1873, originally constructed as a school and now partially used for commercial purposes. It is built of brick with stone dressings and features a green slate roof, showcasing a Gothic style. The exterior consists of two storeys and a five-window range. To the left of the entrance is a tower that slightly advances from the main structure. The entrance is framed by stumpy recessed columns that support a deeply moulded archway, flanked by buttresses with stone gablets. The building's name and date are inscribed on a tablet above the doorway. Above the entrance, there is a two-light traceried window, and a rose window is set in the coped gablet beneath the mansard roof.

The lower windows in the main school-room range to the right are paired and feature stilted arches with foliate capitals on the central shaft. A continuous hoodmould and cill band run along these windows. The upper windows are alternately paired with cusped stilted arches divided by shafts with foliate capitals, and they have foiled two-light windows beneath the coped gablets. All upper windows are linked by a continuous cill band and hoodmould, with many retaining their original leading. The building is adorned with coped gables and ridge cresting throughout. The interior has not been inspected. Hargreaves School was built for the Leek Congregational Church and is named after a former minister, representing a strong example of Gothic Revival architecture.