Priors Court School

Prior's Court School is a late 18th-century house that has been converted into a school. It is built of red brick and features an old tile roof with four chimneys. The building has a moulded brick cornice, a parapet with stone coping, and three central triangular pedimented dormers. It is two storeys high with an attic and has a façade divided into one, three, and one bays, with glazing bar sashes. The first and fifth bays project, and the central part is set forward, rising above the parapet to thermal windows and triangular pediments in the attic. The ground floor windows of the wings are set in arched recesses.

There is a projecting central porch supported by four possibly re-used Corinthian stone columns and an entablature. The entrance door features a fanlight and is flanked by narrow arched windows. To the left, there is a two-storey, eight-bay addition built around 1900, designed in a similar style. The east front has a recessed central bay with an arched first-floor window and a wrought iron balcony, while canted bays on either side rise to the parapet. The central porch on this side is supported by four Greek Doric columns and has a panelled door.

The north front consists of two, one, one, one, and two bays, with the roof hipped forward over the two projecting bays on the left and right. The central bay projects and features a triangular pediment with a blank circular opening in the tympanum. The first floor has triple ogee-headed Gothick windows that extend to ground level.

Inside, the front hall boasts a heavily moulded panelled ceiling and frieze. The southern door has pilasters and a semi-circular fanlight with a scrolled keystone, while the northern door is adorned with an architrave, entablature, and a broken triangular pediment. There are additional fine doorcases to the east and west. A fireplace with a heavily moulded overmantel is present, and the ground floor room to the south features shafted triple ogee-headed Gothick windows. The first-floor rooms also contain good fireplaces.