Education Offices, Downhills School And Railings And Walls To Front

The Education Offices at Downhills School, located at 336 Philip Lane, were built between 1899 and 1900 and are attributed to architect Albert E Pridmore, who was the architect for the Tottenham School Board. This two-storey brick and terracotta building features a hipped slate roof with tall chimneys. The main facade is symmetrical and lively, highlighted by a projecting five-bay center flanked by broader single-bay wings, with recessed entrances on either side.

The ground floor of the center section showcases a bold design, featuring a central panelled door with a toplight set in an elaborate round-arched terracotta doorcase with Jacobethan details. On either side are round-arched windows framed by terracotta Gibbsian surrounds, with smaller toplights above tripartite casements. The first floor has a sill band level with a swan-necked pediment over the panelled red brick doorcase. It features a central group of three windows with small panes in their casements, set beneath keystones and surrounded by terracotta decoration. The corner oriels are particularly ornate, adorned with terracotta scroll mouldings and small-paned casements.

Above, a terracotta balustraded pediment is supported by brick piers and features a heavy cornice and a broken segmental pediment from which a clock projects. An open timber cupola crowns the roof. The wings on either side have terracotta bands, with two windows on the ground floor featuring keystones and larger single windows on the first floor set beneath segmental pediments. This design is consistent on the side elevations. The doors on either side are six-panelled and framed by pedimented surrounds. In front, the property is enclosed by railings atop dwarf, segmental-dished walls with contrasting brick piers and stone gatepiers, which are integral to the overall design.