Priorsfield School

Priorsfield School is a house converted into a school, built around 1900 by C. A. Voysey. The building features colourwashed roughcast walls, hipped roofs covered with machine tiles, and deep eaves. It is arranged around a central courtyard, with an L-shaped front range and the entrance located at the rear angle. The structure is one storey high with a double row of attics on the right side and two storeys in the gable on the left. There are rendered square ridge stacks in the centre of the right side, with additional rear stacks on the left and left ridge stacks. The windows are wood framed with leaded casements and tiled sills, and the building has battered buttresses at the ends.

The ground floor features three large mullioned and transomed windows, while there are four upper dormers, one of which is hipped at the right end, and four through-eaves dormers below. A square tower is located at the re-entrant angle, with one window on the first floor. The left hand range has two gables and one window on each floor. A part-glazed door is placed diagonally across the re-entrant angle, flanked by square bay windows, and is topped with a flat hood supported by two columns with a glazed vault.

The courtyard ranges include continuous leaded glazing on the ground floor of one side, with through-eaves dormers above. The taller, two-storey ranges on the sides have windows that alternate with buttresses, and there is a massive gable at the rear.

On the left hand return front, there is a massive gable with flanking gabled bays on either side. The central gable has two windows on both the ground and first floors, as well as in the attic. The lower two-storey gables on the sides are buttressed and dormered, with a set-back range to the right that has two angle bays flanking a recessed entrance. The building features massive ridge stacks and has 20th-century brick extensions at the rear and left.

Inside, some original fittings remain, primarily panelling and fireplaces.