St Phillips Roman Catholic Primary School

1. 5401 LONDON ROAD (south side)

St Phillip's Roman Catholic Primary School TQ 0107 1/302 TQ 0107 2/302

II GV

1. 1898, to the design of Leonard Stokes. Split-level building of one storey and basement on sloping ground. Yellow brick walls with red brick lacing courses and dressings; plain tile roofs. Windows with small panes, the large windows with transomes and mullions.

NE or front elevation with central flat-roofed entrance wing with front parapet wall ramped up over two moulded centre doorways with dripstones, the right hand doorway since converted to a window; three small segmentally headed two-light windows to each side. To rear of the entrance wing, a pitched roofed wing with three gabled dormers and, to each side of entrance wing, a pitched roofed cross-wing with one gabled dormer, the front gable of each cross-wing with tall three-light segmentally headed window with shorter flanking side-lights. At each end of the front elevation, a flat-roofed bowed brick projection.

To each side of the central doorways, a path bounded by NE retaining wall with good contemporary iron railings winds down steeply to the basement court beneath the SW range of the building, via an arch at the base of each gabled cross-wing in the front elevation. The basement court has a series of central brick piers each flanked by segmental brick arches, and a ten bay open arcade on SW. The arcade arches are set behind a terrace with a flight of steps leading down to the school play ground. The arcade comprises the basement storey of the SW or rear elevation of the school and has a wide projecting boarded canopy above it. Upper storey of SW elevation with five gables, each with segmentally headed window; the wider end gables each have a three- light centre window with shorter flanking single side lights; centre gable with four- light window and intermediate gable each with taller three-light window. Brick chimney breast and stack attached to SE gable.

Listing NGR: TQ0134507282