Godolphin Club

The Godolphin Club, formerly the Old Grammar School, is a building comprising a grammar school and later public rooms, constructed in two phases. The original grammar school dates to 1834 and was designed by George Wightwick. Later, in 1888-89, additions and alterations created the present public building.

The grammar school front is faced in granite ashlar with a shaped gabled parapet. The other front is constructed of dressed blue stone with a granite plinth and features windows, a doorway, and a moulded string course. Prominent corbelled freestone buttresses rise through a tall, coped gabled parapet entablature, with shorter intermediate buttresses, all topped with finials. The front roof is of steep-pitched dry slate, while the rear has asbestos slate; the grammar school section has a grouted scantle slate T-plan roof. The school's rear is adjoined by a further building.

The building exhibits Gothic-style elevations across both storeys, with a symmetrical, three-bay street frontage. The street front features transomed mullioned windows and a tall two-light first-floor window with trefoil-headed top-lights and casements with glazing bars. The ground floor incorporates three-light windows flanking a central moulded doorway with a corbelled round-arched head. Above the doorway is a blind Y-traceried fanlight over a pair of boarded, panelled doors with four leaded glazed trefoils. The right-hand return has a first-floor window matching those on the front, alongside a projecting bay to the left. The remaining four bays feature four first-floor openings – two tall transomed wooden windows on the left, and two lights above the grammar school on the right. An iron fire escape staircase is located near the doorway.

The grammar school section has a symmetrical, three-bay canted front with a central, trefoil-headed louvred vent, surmounted by a finialed gable. Flanking this are parapets above two-light, moulded wooden windows with a square granite hoodmould and leaded lights. Above the entrance is a heavily moulded doorway with a four-centred arched head, displaying a coat of arms above the original pair of studded doors. Flanking bays contain slit windows on each floor. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.