Blake

Blake is a boys' hostel built around 1925 to 1933 by Buckland and Heywood. The building is made of red brick with stone and darker brick dressings, featuring a hipped plain tile roof behind a brick parapet. It has an H-plan layout with identical east and west fronts, two storeys high and comprising nine bays. The corners are accentuated with rusticated brick quoins, and there is a flush brick plinth outlined in darker brick. The parapet has stone coping and rectangular brick panels outlined in darker brick, along 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 stone doorcase features a moulded stone surround with angle pilasters that have stylized capitals and moulded bases, topped with stone finials resting on the cornice. The entablature bears the house name, and a pair of doors with three raised and fielded panels each is located below an overlight with glazing bars arranged in a diamond pattern.

Above, the first floor window has a moulded stone surround and also consists of three panes by four panes. Darker brickwork is used in the flat arches of the windows and surrounds, extending above and below to create apron-like panels beneath the first floor windows and a shallow feature of only three courses below the ground floor windows. The south face features a central pedimented bay with a first floor window in a stone surround. Additionally, there is a single-storey housemaster's accommodation inserted at the front of the facade. The northern arcaded service court has an arch that fills the top of the H-plan, using various sizes of brickwork in the detailing of the capitals. This building is one of ten identical houses for pupils.