Goldsmiths' College

Goldsmiths' College is a building constructed in 1844 by John Shaw, featuring a front section that is three storeys high and has 16 windows, designed in the English Renaissance style. The exterior is made of red brick with stone dressings, including rusticated quoins, an entablature with a modillion cornice, and coping to the parapet. The second-floor band is guilloche moulded, and the door and window dressings include moulded architraves, with eared details on the ground and first floors for the sash windows that have glazing bars. The second-floor windows have cornices and bracketed cills, while the ground floor windows rest on a string course, with the wall below being stone-faced.

The building features wide recessed side entrances under bracketed entablatures, which have modern windows. The main entrance, aligned with the axis, has modern glazed double doors beneath older glazing that fills the head of a two-storey round arch. This arch has a moulded architrave, impost blocks, and a scrolled keystone, all framed in a Doric order with attached columns and lions' heads in the frieze above. The inscription "GOLDSMITH'S COLLEGE" is located between the columns, and there are small round windows in the spandrels. An achievement of arms is displayed on a tablet above the entrance.

The long returns of the building are in a similar style, featuring rusticated pilasters at intervals, along with numerous extensions and additions. The garden front of the back building, constructed in 1905, is in a neo-classical style and also three storeys high. It has a projecting five-bay centre with one-bay links to three-bay outer wings, made of red brick with stone dressings, including a frieze and cornice, parapet coping, and a balustraded centre to the parapet. Four tall pilasters, resting on a stone-faced ground floor, define the middle bays and support an enriched entablature. The second floor has round windows, while the first floor is blank. A niche on the ground floor axis is framed in carved garlands, which also frame the second-floor windows. Lunettes are present in the second floor of the links, and other window sashes with glazing bars are set under gauged brick arches with stone keys. A stone first-floor band supports rusticated quoins at the angles, matching the pilasters in the end sections. The entrances, located in the third bays from the ends, feature six-panel double doors under rectangular fanlights with thick bars, all within an eared architrave with a triple keystone.