Former County School

The Former County School, built in 1913 by H Goothall, is a school building designed in the Edwardian Baroque style. It is constructed of English bond red brick with limestone dressings and features hipped Welsh slate roofs along with brick stacks that have moulded caps. The building stands three storeys tall and has a 3:5:3 arrangement of windows, with a taller central block that is set forward.

The central block's ground floor is characterized by channelled stone rustication and has 12-pane sash windows set in semi-circular arched architraves with projecting apron blocks. These windows are divided at the impost level by the bases of Ionic pilasters adorned with festooned volutes that highlight the upper storey. The central bay features a square-headed window beneath a tall semi-circular arched window, which is framed by an open pediment supported by engaged Ionic columns. The other first-floor windows consist of 12-pane sashes set in eared architraves, with carved tassels at the corners of the panelled aprons. A modillioned cornice runs along the top, and a glazed cupola is present on the roof.

The outer blocks each have an ashlar ground floor with a semi-circular arched doorway framed in a classical architrave, supported by paired and engaged Ionic columns. The tripartite windows have glazing bars, and the first-floor windows are set in moulded stone architraves with panelled aprons, flanked by scrolls at the centre. The side walls are three bays in matching style. The rear walls are made of yellow brick with gauged red brick flat arches over casement windows. Classrooms are arranged around a quadrangle at the rear.

Inside, the ground-floor assembly room features moulded beams and cornices, while the first-floor gym has an iron-braced collar-truss roof and a panelled transverse partition.