Churchfields Kindergarten

The building comprises a school house and school, formerly the Abel Smith Memorial School for Girls, later All Saints Girls' School, and now a nursery school, constructed in 1861 with 20th-century alterations. It is built of yellow stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, incorporating red brick bands, a moulded stone sill band, kneelers, copings, and stone dressings. The roof is tiled, featuring blue roll ridge tiles, stone coped gables to the left and right, and brick chimneys with bands and oversailing courses.

The School House, situated at the left (west) side of the building, features a four-bay classroom with a projecting gable to the right (east). The exterior is single and two storeys high. The School House has a four-light stone mullion and transom window on the first floor. A projecting square bay on the ground floor has a mullion and transom window and a hipped tiled roof. An entrance turret to the right incorporates a two-light lancet window with trefoil heads above a stone pointed arch, with red brick bands at intervals across the facade.

To the right, the classroom wing features multi-light chamfered brick reveals, with pebbledashed panels and pointed segmental arches above, incorporating stone kneelers, a keyblock, and alternating voussoir bands of red and yellow brick. The bay divisions are accentuated by projecting buttresses with offsets, with three red brick bands across the facade, and a splayed projecting plinth at the base. A projecting gable to the right is similarly detailed, featuring a taller, narrower window and additional red brick bands across the gable above. 20th-century flat-roofed extensions exist to the rear.

The interior remains uninspected.

A commemorative tablet in the gable records that the school was built in memory of Abel Smith of Woodhall Park (1788-1859), who had served Hertford as a Member of Parliament. The school originally provided education for girls drawn from the overcrowded Cowper School, built in 1841 on the London Road. The school's design demonstrates influence from model school plans of the time, notably the work of Butterfield published in 1852 in 'Instrumenta Ecclesia'.