St Mary'S School

St. Mary's School is a town house that has been converted into a school, built around 1730. It was later extended to the right and left in the late 19th century, with a dormitory wing designed by architect William Butterfield in 1874. The building features flared Flemish bond brickwork with red brick quoins and dressings, topped with an old tile roof and brick stacks. It has a central staircase plan and is designed in the early Georgian style. Originally two storeys high, it now has three storeys and a five-window range, highlighted by a pedimented central bay. The gauged brick pediment includes a Doric entablature and pilasters surrounding a six-panelled door. There are gauged brick cambered arches above two cellar windows and 18th-century sash windows with half-H aprons. A red brick storey band and dentilled, moulded eaves add further detail. The late 19th-century second storey is roughcast and features sash windows and a bracketed cornice over the central bay, which has a lunette flanked by double pilaster strips. The building has a gabled roof with end stacks and two late 19th-century bays in a similar style to the right of the front. The rear was rebuilt and extended in the late 19th century, featuring a lean-to roof over a passage with Diocletian windows leading to a chapel.

Inside, there are some 18th-century two-panelled doors and panelled shutters. The right room has a panelled interior and a fine fireplace. The central dog-leg staircase is adorned with fluted column-on-vase balusters on open string banisters, ramped to fluted newel posts with elaborate carved brackets, and features a panelled dado with fluted pilasters. The first floor contains panelled rooms in the centre and to the left, the latter of which has a fine fireplace.

Additionally, the two-storey dormitory wing designed by Butterfield in 1874 has an attic storey added around 1890-1900. It is constructed of red brick with yellow brick diaper work between the ground and first-floor windows, offset buttresses, and limestone ashlar bands at the window sill and impost levels. The first floor has rendered mock timber-framing, one-light cusped windows in a 13-window ground-floor range, and narrow first-floor sashes. The second floor features club tile hung gables with sashes. A similar style block is located at the rear left.