The Study Block

The Study Block is a school building constructed around 1860 by Charles Hansom, likely with his brother Aloysius. It is made of rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof, designed in the Victorian Gothic style. The building has two storeys with attics and includes eleven first-floor windows.

At each end of the structure are gables; the left gable is mostly hidden by an adjacent building, while the right gable is attached to an octagonal clock tower on the left side. The ground floor windows are trefoil-headed and transomed, set beneath flat hoodmoulds. Most of these windows are paired lights, except for one single window and one three-light window on the left, and a six-light window on the right gabled bay.

The clock tower features a Tudor-arched doorway and single-light square-headed staircase windows. On the first floor, there are two-light double-transomed trefoil-headed windows with quartrefoil tracery in the central section, except for a small trefoil-headed single light in the first bay, a three-light traceried window with two rows of diaper work in the second bay, and a four-light oriel window in the seventh bay. The right gabled bay has pairs of two-light transomed square-headed windows at two levels.

In the attic, there is a four-light transomed square-headed window on the left gable end, along with seven dormers in the central section. The right gable end features a three-light window divided by panels with shields and blind reticulated tracery. The clock tower has two-light belfry openings with diaper work below and clocks on two faces, topped with an embattled parapet.