Plymouth College Of Further Education (Devonport Annexe)

This is a municipal science, art, and technical school built in 1897 by HJ Snell. It is constructed of Plymouth limestone with Bath stone dressings, featuring steep slate roofs with parapets that are arcaded towards the centre and coped gable ends. Tall stone and brick stacks incorporate moulded cornices. The building exemplifies the Netherlandish Renaissance style, as noted by Pevsner.

The design incorporates a rectangular central block flanked by recessed wings containing staircases. The two-story building has a squat basement. The front facade has five bays with paired windows within segmental arches on the ground floor and basement, and flat, chamfered heads on the central first-floor bays, and round-arched windows on the gabled bays. Wings to either side have a 1-window range with tall, round-arched stair windows. The original windows feature glazing bars, except for the stair windows, which have round tracery.

A tall central tower articulates the front of the main block, with cross wings projecting slightly on either side. The basement forms a plinth, with an entablature below the first-floor windows. A four-stage entrance and clock tower incorporates a large, round-arched doorway approached by a bridge with stone side walls. Above the first-floor windows is an elliptical arch framed by an entablature, and a stage rising above the ridge line features buttressed pilaster corners, a central ventilator, and a moulded, machicolated cornice below a narrower upper stage. The buttresses then step in to become octagonal, surmounted by domed finials. Between these buttresses are open-pedimented aedicules containing niches with bells. A tall entablature containing a clock face on each side is topped by a bell-shaped roof and weather vane. The cross wings feature corner pilaster buttresses rising to moulded, domed finials. Carved cartouches are present on the gable centres, and the gables are surmounted by aedicules with vases and round pediments. The returns of the cross wings display moulded strings rising as round arches over first-floor windows, framing carved tympanae. A further round-arched doorway, approached by steps, is found on the right-hand return, with carved spandrels and a relief panel reading "SCHOOL OF ART." Above the doorway, and above a transomed two-light window with round-arched lights, are hoodmoulds with double scrolled centres. The building retains panelled doors and glazed fanlights with vertical glazing bars.

The interior was noted to contain original joinery, a staircase, and stained glass in the stairhall. It is considered a distinguished example of late 19th-century school design.