Junior School

The building is a Junior School constructed in a Free Northern Renaissance style, dating to 1897. It is built of rubble with pale freestone dressings and slate roofs, and sits on a plinth with a string course below the windows. The main front faces southwest, featuring a central block with gabled cross wings extending to either end. A central, western Renaissance cupola rises above the building, complemented by red brick chimneys.

A gabled bay to the left of the central block includes a belcote (a small turret) housed within a decorative aedicule (a small classical tabernacle) with a pinnacled semi-circular pediment and side volutes. The central first-floor window is framed by a freestone architrave entablature, with smaller windows on either side. The ground floor features a pair of tall windows with pedimented architraves. A porch situated in the angle between the front and a cross wing has a round-arched doorway with a freestone doorcase. The doorcase consists of squat columns on plinths, supporting a Mannerist hyperbolic pediment flanked by finials, and includes a square window to its return. An inscription on the porch records the opening of the school on Diamond Jubilee Day, June 22, 1897.

To the right of the main front, a lower, shaped gable is topped by a tall window flanked by smaller windows. A shaped gable to the right cross wing features a tall window with a narrower window on each side. The shaped gable to the left cross wing has a pair of tall windows with pedimented architraves. Set at the south angle is an octagonal tower, castellated with a slated spirelet, which includes a clock. The northwest face of the tower features a loop hole and a plaque commemorating the gift of tower bells and the clock. The angle of the building transitions from the octagonal tower face to a right angle via a broach stop. Three shaped gables define the northwest elevation, each containing a tall window with a pedimented architrave, with smaller, square-headed windows between them.

The southeast elevation mirrors the northwest, but lacks the angle tower. The rear elevation’s central block has an entrance to the left; the door surround to the girls’ entrance mirrors that of the front. To the right of the entrance is a larger shaped gable with a broad first-floor window and two ground-floor windows. Further to the right is a lower shaped gable with a tall window flanked by lower windows. To the right of the main block, a shaped cross gable features a loop hole and a tall window flanked by lower windows. To the left of the main block is a shaped cross gable; the ground floor includes a later flat-roofed extension with square-headed windows.

Flat-roofed and rendered extensions located southeast of the school are not considered to be of special interest.