Cornwallis

Cornwallis is a boys' hostel built around 1925 to 1933 by architects Buckland and Heywood. It features red brick construction with stone and darker brick dressings, topped with a hipped plain tile roof behind a brick parapet. The building is designed in an H-plan, with identical fronts on the east and west sides, and consists of two storeys with 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 both sides, there are four horned sash windows with three panes by four panes on the ground floor, and similar upper hung casements on the first floor.

The central entrance features a stone doorcase with a moulded surround, angle pilasters with stylized capitals, moulded bases, and stone finials resting on the cornice. The entablature above bears the house name, and the entrance has a pair of doors with three raised and fielded panels each, topped by an overlight with diamond-patterned glazing bars. The first-floor window above the entrance 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 shallower feature of three courses below the ground-floor windows. The south face has a central pedimented bay with a first-floor window in a stone surround.

Additionally, a single-storey housemaster's accommodation has been inserted at the front of the facade. The northern arcaded service court features an arch at the top of the H-plan, with various sizes of brickwork used in the detailing of the capitals. Cornwallis is one of ten identical houses built for pupils.