Block Number 39 Wellington

Block Number 39, also known as Wellington, is a dormitory block built in 1904 by Sir Henry Tanner. It features a pebbledash exterior with red brick dressings and a plain tiled roof. This building is one of eight identical H-shaped dormitory blocks arranged in symmetrical pairs around a central dining hall and tower. Notably, blocks 30 and 31 have been altered and are not listed.

The block is designed in the Arts and Crafts Georgian style and consists of a single storey with an attic. Architectural details include a plinth, pilaster quoins, and a modillion eaves cornice. The projecting end gables are treated as pediments, featuring gauged and keyed Diocletian windows, with two paired glazing bar sashes below.

Inside, there is a courtyard with alternating glazing bar sashes and three segmentally headed semi-dormers on each of its three faces, or alternatively, pedimented dormers. A balustraded and columned open cupola is located in the center of the main range, with smaller cupola-type air vents on the side wings. The outer faces of the wings feature glazing bar sashes and flat-roofed dormers. There are small 20th-century extensions on the front courtyard, and the rear courtyards contain original one-storey service blocks.

Entry to the block is through half-glazed doors topped with pediments, leading to large glazed end gables on the westernmost wings. The blocks are asymmetrical, with the arrangement of segmental semi-dormers and pedimented gables designed to reflect the adjacent paired blocks (Nos. 42 and 41, Nos. 39 and 40, Nos. 32 and 33), rather than the opposite wing of the same H-block.