Oldfield Park Junior School

Oldfield Park Junior School is a large, late 19th-century school building constructed primarily in the 1890s, exhibiting a multi-gabled Flemish style with Art Nouveau detailing. It is built of limestone ashlar with slate or replacement slate roofs. The school is composed of three main units, each with two gables facing the main frontage, and a deep wing to the rear. The first two units of the wing also incorporate a second gable to the rear, backing onto a small courtyard. The main units are connected by shallow ranges situated over three main entry points.

The windows are casements with horizontal bars, set within stone, chamfered mullions and transoms, and feature a straight drip course, including flush sills. The main front, stepped to follow the slope of the hill, has three pairs of gables, each featuring a large four-light window with two transoms. Above these are shouldered gables with ball finials on small curved pediments, and the coping line has a small semicircular dip. Doorways are positioned between the gables and at the left-hand end, featuring original panelled doors under moulded heads, with the mouldings returning part of the way to the jambs. These door surrounds are topped with open pediments supported by flared, fluted brackets. The centre of each lintel originally held inscriptions (for boys, girls, and infants), which have since been removed. Three small, high windows are situated to the right of each doorway. Each unit has tall ashlar stacks.

The return to the left side features a single gable matching those on the front, followed by a set-back wing with three tall, three-light windows under high gables, mirroring the detailing of the front. Lead cheeks are present on this section. A prominent corner turret carried at sill height on a triple-stepped corbel rising from the walling displays the carved date 1893. The turret has seven narrow ventilating slits with louvres below a cornice and parapet of small curved pediments with ball finials, topped by a high, copper-clad, ogee profiled cupola or spire with a weathercock finial.

At the rear, two paired gables feature three and six-light casements under gables, all detailed similarly to the front. A single gable with no window is located on the top unit. Narrow courtyards between the units have window fenestration similar to the north end. A gabled wing with a three-light window has a similarly detailed internal gable end. A doorway linking the wings is positioned opposite the main entrances from the front. The interiors were not inspected, but composite roof trusses are visible.