Pyrland Hall

Pyrland Hall is a country house that has been converted into a boys' preparatory school. It was built around 1760 for Sir William Yea. The exterior features a render that is grooved to resemble ashlar stone over a brick structure, with Bath stone dressings. At the rear, there is a brick service courtyard, and the building has hipped slate roofs behind a parapet. Architectural details include a cavetto moulded cornice, a flat band string course, and a cyma recta moulded cornice on the wings.

The main block is three storeys high with five bays, where the central three bays project slightly forward. There are single-storey projecting wings on either side, linked by an Ionic colonnade. The second-floor windows are 4-pane sash windows in the centre, with tripartite windows in the outer bays. The first-floor windows are similar but feature sash windows without glazing bars, while the ground floor has been renewed in the 20th century with tripartite sash windows in the outer bays. The Ionic colonnade, made of Bath stone, has nine bays and features a dentil cornice and boarded soffit, flanking central half-glazed double doors.

Inside, the hall features an Ionic screen, dado, and intricate plasterwork cornices. There is an imperial plan stick stair with a cut string and an inlaid mahogany handrail, along with Greek-style plasterwork decoration on the soffits. A Venetian window is located on the landing, and there is decorative plasterwork on a circular skylight. The interior retains a notable number of original panelled doors, except for those leading to the headmaster's study and library in the entrance hall. The wings feature Adam-style plasterwork, and the right-hand wing contains a fine marble chimney piece. The Yea estates were sold in 1911, and the building was sympathetically converted for school use around 1953.