Guildhall Feoffment County Primary School And Masters House And Attached Walls And Gates

The Guildhall Feoffment County Primary School and Master's House, along with its attached walls and gates, is a primary school built in 1843 by architect H.E. Kendall. Originally established by the Guildhall Feoffment Trust as a Poor Boys' School, the building features red brick with black brick headers, white brick, and knapped flint dressings, topped with a slate roof.

The school is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and consists of a one-storey school and a one-and-a-half storey house. The main school room has a tripartite gabled front with four-light traceried windows that include mullion and transom divisions, and 4-centred arched heads to the lights, along with intersected tracery heads. There is a brick drip-mould, and two outer single casements with 4-centred arched heads. Below, black headers are arranged in diamonds, and four knapped flint buttresses rise through the parapet of the gable, serving as finials. Blank shields are positioned under the drip mould at the apex, and the roof features a boarded rectangular cupola.

To the left is a battlemented single-storey wing, and to the right is a battlemented screen wall with a 4-centred arched gate, buttresses, and a parapet with a shield. A range that fronts on College Street, built in the same style and contemporary to the main building, was initially detached but is now connected by 20th-century extensions.

The master's house, attached on the right, includes a ground storey rectangular bow with a three-light arch-headed casement and a single-light casement on the first floor. It features clasping angle buttresses and a parapet gable. A brick and flint dwarf wall surrounds the property, with single and double pedestrian wicket gates and gate piers.

Inside the school hall, there is a five-bay open timber roof in Jacobean style, with arch-braced hammer-beam trusses and cusped spandrels on the collar braces, along with square moulded hanging finials and three rows of through purlins. One classroom contains a timber arch-braced collar truss.