Montem Primary School

Montem Primary School is a former Board School dating to 1897. It was designed by T.J.Bailey for the London School Board. The building is constructed of yellow brick with dressings of gauged red brick and Portland stone, with lead and slate roofs.

The principal north front is symmetrical and four storeys high, with two ranges of seven storeys. It features a central five-window range with a ground floor of brick in banded rustication and flat-arched windows. The first and second floors have tall windows illuminating halls, the first-floor windows flat-arched and the second-floor windows round-arched. These are framed by a single round-arched arcade of giant Doric pilasters and archivolts with voussoirs, topped by a dentil cornice. An attic storey features flat-arched windows with eared architraves, a cornice, and a parapet. Flanking the central block are staircase towers with entrances on the ground floor, serving as Girls and Infants on the left and Boys and Infants on the right. Above the central range's cornice is a square tower with a lead-covered ogee roof and a wooden lantern with a balustrade. The sides of the towers are ranges of four windows and seven storeys, with date panels between the fifth and sixth storeys and pedimented studio windows above. The outermost ranges are three windows wide and treated as wings, mirroring the central block in their brick banded rustication, flat-arched ground-floor windows, and pilastered first and second-floor windows.

The west front is four storeys high with an eight-window range, featuring a pedimented quasi-centrepiece. The attic storey has an open rooftop playground. The south front is simpler, with a four-storey, twenty-window range, flanked by three-window wings. The east front is a simpler version of the west.

The interior originally included halls on the ground, first, and second floors of the central north block, along with mezzanine floors in the seven-storey ranges adjacent to the staircase towers. These spaces remain largely intact, although mezzanine floors have been added to classrooms on the south side of the central block.