Blue Coat School (Front Block)

The Blue Coat School (front block) is a house that has been converted into a school, built around 1830 by John Forster. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof. The building is designed symmetrically with two storeys and two bays on each side of a three-bay two-storey bow. The facade is enhanced by pilasters that flank the outer pairs of bays and a cornice with a blocking course. In front of the bow, there are four giant Ionic columns. The first-floor windows disrupt the architrave, and above each column in the bay, there is a laurel wreath on the frieze. The windows are sashed without glazing bars. On the ground floor, the middle window of the bow has an architrave, while the outer windows feature French windows with margin lights. The left-hand bay includes a first-floor door leading to an iron fire escape. The outer pair of bays each has separate pitched roofs. The building was formerly known as "The Terrace" and is illustrated in the Victoria County History, Staffordshire, Volume 7, page 176.