Lawrence Sheriff School (North Range and Hall)

Lawrence Sheriff School, located on Clifton Road in Rugby, is a school building constructed in 1878, with extensions added in the early and late 20th century. It features Flemish bond red brick with stone dressings and decorative timber framing in the gables. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has stone-coped gable ends, with truncated brick stacks at the gable ends and a tiled wooden bellcote at the center.

The main front range is designed in a symmetrical three-bay layout, with a central entrance leading to a large hall in the rear wing. The front features a prominent gabled bay with a large moulded pointed arch doorway, flanked by buttresses. Above the doorway are three painted armorial shields, and a moulded string course serves as a sill for two large pointed arch windows adorned with plate tracery and leaded-pane lights with cusped heads. Between these windows is a large canopied niche that contains a figure dressed in the livery of the London Grocers' Company. The outer bays have four-light stone mullion windows on the ground floor, which include transoms and lowered sills, while the gables above the eaves are wide, featuring sham timber framing and pierced bargeboards.

At the center of the ridge is a wooden bellcote with louvres between balusters, topped by a conical slated spire with a finial. To the right is a Georgian-style two-storey, five-bay wing from the early 20th century, which has sash windows, while to the left is a single-storey wing. The hall wing at the rear has gables on the sides, each with pointed arch windows.

Inside, the hall features an elaborate crown-post roof with arcading over the tie-beam. The school was established as a separate Lower School for local boys after the Public Schools Act of 1868, which ended free education for local children at Rugby School. The construction cost was £15,000, including the site.