Rycotewood College

Rycotewood College is a former workhouse, built around 1835 by George Wilkinson, which has since been converted into a college. The building features red brick construction and a slate roof, with brick stacks located at the rear. Its complex layout includes a three-storey central octagonal pavilion flanked by two-storey wings with six windows on either side, and three-storey cross-wings with seven windows at each end. Most doorways have been fitted with 20th-century doors. The central octagonal pavilion has 12-pane unhorned sash windows with cambered brick heads, while the ground floor of the wings features basket-arched openings with 20th-century wooden casements. The first floor of the wings and all windows in the cross-wings have two-light wooden casements. The hipped roofs include lead ridges on the central octagon, topped with a copper weathervane. Inside, cast iron columns support the ceiling of the ground floor central octagon, although there have been 20th-century alterations to the interior. Additionally, there are 20th-century additions at the rear and a late 19th-century single-storey cross-wing at the center.