St Andrew'S School, (Buckhold House), And Adjoining Garden Walls And Gateways

St Andrew's School, formerly Buckhold House, is a house dating to 1884-5, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, with 20th-century additions to the northwest. It is a red brick building with raised diapering in bands and gables, featuring toothed verges and mullioned and transomed windows with sashes and buff terracotta dressings. Shaped and plain tile hanging is also present, along with old tile roofs boasting ten stacks. A truncated bellcote sits on the north ridge, alongside irregularly placed dormers and 20th-century flat dormers. A steeply pitched octagonal tile roof with a lead ball finial crowns the southeast corner turret.

The building's plan is irregular, presenting two and three storeys, and an attic. The southwest front incorporates several projecting gabled blocks. On the left is a three-storey and attic block with a first-floor oriel and blank arcading, a central supporting buttress, and a second floor corbelled out above. To the right is a two-storey gabled projection with a central four-panelled door. Another two-storey and attic gabled projection has French casements, a blank terracotta panel in the tympanum, and a 20th-century first-floor balcony. The rightmost section features a two-storey octagonal turret with cusped arch blank arcading between floors.

The northeast front displays a gable end with a central stack. A two-storey and attic gabled projection has two central six-panelled doors within a moulded surround, accompanied by a timber-framed gabled porch featuring curved braces, a tiled roof, decorated barge boards, stained glass windows, and two six-panelled doors. Above the porch is blank arcading, and a central date panel. A further two-storey and attic gabled projection has pilaster strips. To the right is a three-storey and attic gabled block with upper storeys corbelled out over rounded ground floor corners.

The south-west boundary features a brick and terracotta wall with buttresses, moulded coping, and a central moulded arch topped with a gable, bearing a terracotta panel with a ‘W’ in the tympanum. The east wall also incorporates brick and terracotta construction, moulded coping, a buttress with a finial, and a central flat archway with dentils and a timber gable.

Inside, the entrance hall includes eight Doulton ceramic wall panels, four large depicting Doulton’s Lambeth works, Lambeth Place, and the quay at Delft, and four smaller panels of rural and urban scenes. The library has fitted bookshelves and a gallery. A ground floor room within the turret to the southeast contains two wooden wall cupboards with inlaid ivory decoration. The school owns original signed drawings of the house and other estate buildings. The grounds are landscaped.