Blacklers No 1 Boarding House

Blacklers No 1 Boarding House is a boarding house built in 1933 as part of the Dartington School complex, designed by W E Lescaze of Howe and Lescaze of America, with assistance from R Hening. It is constructed of rendered brick with a plain concrete coping concealing a flat roof and features two small rendered stacks on the roof. The building has a long rectangular plan, with a single-story projection featuring a balcony at the rear left.

The west front is asymmetrical. A recessed porch is located towards the left, with flush doors and small round lights. Above the doorway is a large, rectangular stair window, with a dripcourse extending to the left and right, covering long horizontal bands of windows with 2, 4, and 3 lights, each light divided by a concrete pier. The central band is shallower. The ground floor mirrors this design but with deeper window bands; the right-hand classroom window extends around the right-hand end to the rear, beneath the projecting first floor at the right-hand end, which is supported by six slender steel tube posts, creating a covered playground area with access from a classroom doorway. A rendered fire escape staircase is located on the right-hand end, a more recent addition. The rear (east) elevation has a continuous first-floor window band, with the right end providing access to the balcony over the projecting ground floor room. Some original steel window frames have been replaced with aluminum. A date stone, "1933" in raised, sans-serif figures, is located to the left of the entrance on the west front.

The interior features an open-well staircase with a solid balustrade and a broad oak handrail. Rooms at the left end have fireplaces with marble facing above and to one side. Flush doors are used throughout. The bed-sitting rooms contain small desks. Blacklers was the first of three similar boarding houses built at Dartington School by Lescaze.