The Carrington Building At Sherborne Boys School

The Carrington Building at Sherborne Boys School is a classroom building constructed between 1909 and 1910, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. It features an H-shaped plan with a central main range flanked by short wings, and a rear wing attached to a 19th-century former industrial building, believed to have been a button factory, which includes a 1936 extension creating a small courtyard.

The building is designed in the Wrenaissance style and is made of ashlar with a plain tile roof and shaped gables. It has one storey and an attic. The central range has eight bays, with projecting two-storey wings on either side that have pairs of shaped gables topped with ball-finials. The façade includes giant pilasters and tall sash windows with broken segmental pediments above. The central eight bays feature weathered buttresses alternating with tall 18-pane sash windows set in plain architraves with keyblocks, along with string and panel detailing above. Doorways on either side have eared architraves with inscribed panels and open pediments adorned with festooned cartouches. The building has deep eaves and large dormers with cross-mullion-transom windows, flanked by segmental pediments and oculi. A wooden cupola with a weather-vane sits above the centre. The south side has two bays, while the north side features three-light sash windows with festoons above and three shaped gables in the wing to the right, which includes Venetian windows. There is a three-bay arcade facing the rear courtyard. The former button factory at the back has cast-iron windows, and the 1936 extension displays dated arms in its gable end.

Inside, there are two staircases with iron balustrades; the northern staircase features a neo-Classical plaster equestrian frieze on the wall of the stairwell. The interior also includes eared doorway architraves and a first-floor hall with exposed round arches leading to the roof.