Akeley Wood School

Akeley Wood School is a former country house that was built in the 1860s by G. Devey for Charles Pilgrim. It was extended in 1911-12 by Sir Ernest George for Captain Robert K. Price and adapted for use as a school in 1946 by Lionel Brett. The building features a plinth and some ground floor walls made of ironstone, with half-timbered upper sections and whitewashed roughcast infill. It has a tiled roof with bargeboards that include finials and carved brackets at the base. The ironstone chimney stacks have square shafts set diagonally.

The original structure is an L-plan Tudor "cottage" with the main wing facing south, a service wing, and a porch facing east. The 1911 additions, designed in a similar style, include a block at the southeast corner with a billiard room on the ground floor and a projection for a passage at the eastern front. There is also chauffeur's accommodation at the north end of the service wing, a new dining room and service wing adjoining the northwest corner of the main block, and a water tower in the courtyard. The building has two storeys and attics, with irregular facades that feature gabled projections and small gables above the first floor windows. The gable ends display elaborate timber patterning, while the remainder is close studded. Some sections of the first floor are jettied.

The windows include mullions, some with transoms, shallow oriels on carved brackets on the first floor, and some canted bay windows on the ground floor. The eastern front has a gabled porch with an L-plan passage leading to the front door. The timber arcade features segmental arches, and the four-centred arch to the porch has carved foliage in the spandrels and a key block with the initials 'AI'. The southern and western fronts originally had lean-to verandahs.

Inside, there are wooden ribs in the ceilings, moulded and carved doorcases, Gothick panelling in the hall, and a staircase with square balusters that was renewed in 1912.