Perrin'S Hall At Worcester Royal Grammar School

Perrin's Hall, part of Worcester Royal Grammar School, was built between 1913 and 1915 by Alfred Hill Parker for Mr. C W Dyson Perrins, with J & A Brazier of Bromsgrove acting as builders. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, topped with a plain clay tile roof featuring parapets to the eaves and gables. It is executed in a Jacobethan style, characterised by ornamental shaped gables.

The principal west elevation is two storeys high and has five first-floor windows. Four windows to the left are two-light designs with mullions and double transoms. To the right is a projecting gable containing a tall, five-light, semi-circular oriel staircase window, also with mullions and double transoms. Stone detailing includes quoins, window surrounds, a plinth, string courses, copings to the parapets, brackets, finials to the gables, open lattice balustrading to the flat roof of the apse, an entrance loggia with steps, and a carved plaque incorporating a corbelled base to the oriel window. Central entrances are accessed via steps and through three semi-circular, headed open archways within the loggia. A single-storey, parapeted, flat-roofed block is located to the left, featuring a pair of two-light mullioned windows. Small single-light windows are positioned on either side of the plaque below the oriel window.

The left-return elevation presents a polygonal apse with a small two-light mullion window set alongside a central buttress, and includes a cartouche. The right-return elevation showcases a full-height break-forward to the centre, featuring a tall, three-light mullioned window with double transoms to the first floor, incorporating stained glass. Four two-light mullioned windows are located on the ground floor. A cartouche is set at the apex of the gable. To the right is a later block. The rear elevation mirrors the principal elevation with four two-light mullioned windows.

All windows feature ornamental leaded glazing. A purpose-built basement, still in use, was designed as a rifle range for the Officer Training Corps.

Internally, the hall has a gallery at the southern end. The ceiling is elaborately decorated with plasterwork forming an segmental-arched vault supported on scrolled brackets. Moulded and carved panelling runs to sill height. A lozenge motif is repeated on the doors, gallery balustrade, and plasterwork. The fireplace has inlaid marble panels, a wooden surround with double pilasters, a curved pediment, and a carved overmantel with festoons and the Royal arms. The staircase features a wrought-iron balustrade and an oak handrail.