Ripley Court School

Ripley Court School is a house, dating from the mid-17th century, with substantial extensions from the early 18th century, the late 18th century, and the 20th century. The exterior is brick, covered in colourwashed pebbledash on a colourwashed, rendered plinth, with a 20th-century plain tiled roof, hipped in places. The building comprises a central rectangular block with a hipped roof range projecting at right angles to the left, and a single-storey extension to the right end. The main block is two storeys and attics, while the left side is two storeys. There are front end stacks with dentilled "shoulders," a ridge stack to the left of centre, and an end stack to the right; further stacks are located at the rear and right. The central range is set back and features a plat band over the ground floor, with dentilled eaves above. Five hip-roofed dormers are present. The front elevation has a regular five-bay arrangement, featuring sash windows with rendered, keystoned heads. The windows have diamond pattern glazing bars and margin lights. The central window on the first floor is arched, with impost blocks. A fine Greek Revival doorcase features a fluted, Doric, half-columned porch, with columns smooth on the lower third, resting on pedestal plinths. The porch has a triglyph and guttae frieze and a shallow flat hood. The door is a five-panel design, topped with a traceried transome light featuring a roundel and diamond pattern within the tracery bars, alongside a central triple arcade. The projecting wing to the left has two windows on the ground floor and one above, breaking through the dentilled eaves of a stack. A single-storey range extends to the right, with a gable at the end adjacent to the main house. This range has one three-light, keystoned, casement window. The right side has irregular casement fenestration. The left-hand return front possesses two hipped-roof projecting bays, each with 12-pane glazing bar sash windows, and two ground floor angle bay windows with tripartite sashes. A central ground floor window contains "spider's web" tracery.