The Big School

The Big School is a school hall for Cranbrook School, built in 1883 by T.G. Jackson. It features a pink brick structure with orange brick dressings and dentilled cornices between the ground and first floors, as well as above the first floor. The building has a plain tiled roof adorned with a stone balustrade and pinnacles, a large pilastered stack on the left, a smaller stack on the right, and stone gable parapets. A central cupola with two arched tiers and an ogee cap topped with a weather-vane adds to its character.

The building is two storeys high and consists of seven bays, with the 2nd, 4th, and 6th bays projecting and supported by pilasters on both floors, each carrying pediments above the first floor against blank brick parapets. The first floor features large arched windows across three bays, tall segment-headed windows in the 3rd and 5th bays, and horizontal oval windows with swags above the segment-headed windows in the 1st and 7th bays. Each bay on the ground floor has a segment-headed window, except for two smaller ones in the 6th bay, and there is an arched doorway with a panelled door in the first bay from the left. All windows are casements with transoms and mullions, and there are rubbed brick decorative aprons below each window.

Inside, the Big School has an arched braced crown post roof and features panelling.