Hood

Hood is a boys' hostel built around 1925-1933 by Buckland and Heywood. It features red brick with stone dressings and some darker brick accents, topped with a hipped plain tile roof behind a brick parapet. The building is designed in an H-plan with identical east and west fronts, standing two storeys tall and comprising nine bays. The corners are marked by 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 ground floor windows with three by four paned horned sashes featuring glazing bars, and similar upper hung casements on the first floor. The central stone doorcase has 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 the pair of doors has three raised and fielded panels each, with an overlight featuring glazing bars arranged in a diamond pattern. The first floor window above the door has a moulded stone surround and also consists of three 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 features a central pedimented bay with a first floor window in a stone surround. A single storey housemaster's accommodation has been inserted at the front of the facade. The northern arcaded service court fills the top of the H-plan, with various sized brickwork detailing the capitals. This building is one of ten identical houses for pupils.