Anson

Anson is a boys' hostel built around 1925 to 1933 by Buckland and Heywood. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and some darker brick accents. It features a hipped plain tile roof behind a brick parapet and has an H-plan layout with identical east and west fronts. The structure is two storeys tall and consists of nine bays.

The exterior includes rusticated brick quoins and a flush brick plinth outlined in darker brick. The parapet has stone coping and rectangular brick panels, also outlined in darker brick, with a stone cornice band. The central bay is canted at the first floor and parapet. On either side, there are four horned sash windows with three panes by four panes and glazing bars on the ground floor, and similar upper hung casements on the first floor.

The central entrance features a stone doorcase with a moulded stone surround, angle pilasters with stylized capitals, moulded bases, and stone finials resting on the cornice. The entablature above bears the house name. The pair of doors consists of three raised and fielded panels each, topped by an overlight with glazing bars arranged in a diamond pattern. The first-floor window above the entrance has a moulded stone surround and also features three panes by four panes.

Darker brickwork is used in the flat arches of the windows and their surrounds, extending above and below to create apron-like panels beneath the first-floor windows and a shallower feature of only three courses below the ground-floor windows. The south face has a central pedimented bay with a first-floor window in a stone surround. A single-storey housemaster's accommodation has been added to the front of the facade. The northern arcaded service court features an arch at the top of the H-plan, using various sizes of brickwork in the detailing of the capitals. Anson is one of ten identical houses for pupils.