6 Abbotsford Road

1. Single storey, 4-bay, L-plan former school in plain gothic style with attached 2-storey, 2-bay schoolhouse to E (now used as offices, 2006); lower ancillary ranges forming U-plan courtyard to rear. Shouldered arched windows with plain circular recessed stone plaques above; steep-pitched multiple gabled roof with overhanging boarded timber eaves. Coursed rubble whinstone; stugged and smoothed blonde sandstone quoins and chamfered surrounds.

Bronze fixed multi-pane casement windows with ventilators; 8-pane timber sash and case windows to schoolhouse. 20th century glazed timber doors. Pitched slate roofs; corniced shouldered ashlar stacks with circular clay cans; mixture of cast-iron and plastic rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: main school interior has undergone remodelling to form office spaces. Schoolhouse interior, whilst also used as offices, has maintained its original layout and details such as shutters, panelled doors and a simple turned stair.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: whinstone rubble with rounded copes to S, E and W surrounding former playground. Cast-iron railings with decorative corner posts enclosing yard to street.