Bentham Grammar School

Bentham Grammar School, originally a rectory, was built in 1884 by architect R. Norman Shaw for Rev. Walker Joy. The building is constructed from snecked stone with stone dressings and features a stone slate roof, showcasing a Domestic Revival style. It has a central staircase plan with three projecting gables across two storeys and a six-bay front in an E shape, arranged as 2:1:1:1:1.

The front windows all have metal casements and leaded lights. The entrance, located to the right of the central projecting gable, features a chamfered surround, a moulded basket-arched head, and a hoodmould, leading to a recessed plank door adorned with iron studs and long hinges. Ground floor windows include two 2-light windows with a mullion and two transoms each, two single-light windows, and a 6-light transomed and mullioned window for the staircase. The upper floor has two 4-light windows with segmental heads, a single light, a 2-light window, a single light, and two 2-light windows with segmental heads, along with a central gable containing a 3-light window and a single-light window in the right-hand gable. The outer gables are topped with shaped kneelers, gable coping, and projecting eaves, with a ridge stack on the left-hand gable end and another on the right-hand front gable.

At the rear, there are four gables, with two on the left side that project forward and feature a pebbledashed upper floor. The ground floor includes a 4-light oriel window, a 6-light chamfered transomed and mullioned window, and two cross windows with wooden transoms and mullions. The upper floor features a 6-light oriel window with transom and mullions, along with two 7-light bowed oriel windows.

Inside, there is a dog-leg staircase with a closed string, vase balusters in a 17th-century style, and a moulded ramped handrail. Most rooms retain simple cornices, and some upper floor bedrooms have coved ceilings.