Parkside School

Parkside School is a house that has been converted into a private school. It was originally built around 1760, with a late 19th-century wing and early 20th-century additions designed by Sir Aston Webb at both the front and rear, along with further 20th-century extensions to the left. The building is made of red brick and features hipped slate roofs that are partly hidden by a parapet. It has two storeys and an attic, with a plat band above the ground floor, a cornice over the first floor, and rusticated corner piers on the ground floor.

The entrance front is L-shaped, showcasing seven glazing bar sash windows on the first floor to the right and one on the left at the end of a projecting four-bay wing. There are double-arched and panelled doors in a projecting entrance bay under a segmental head, designed by Sir Aston Webb in 1911, located to the right. This entrance is framed by a stone-dressed surround with Ionic pilasters that support a flat hoos moulding above the door.

On the right-hand return front, there are three bays with a bow that rises through two storeys to the left. The rear features a central three-bay break under a pediment, with a round window in the tympanum. There is a central glazing bar sash window on the first floor, with the flanking windows blocked. The outer bays contain tripartite glazing bar sash windows. A projecting stone loggia, designed by Sir Aston Webb in 1903, spans the ground floor and is supported by paired Ionic columns, with glazed sides and urn finials in shell sockets at the ends.

Inside, there is a two-storey entrance hall that features a mid-18th-century staircase with twisted balusters and a curled handrail. To the right, there is a Venetian window-style screen with Doric columns. The Music Room has a coved ceiling and a bow-fronted musicians' gallery at one end, adorned with a rich modillion cornice.