Dining Hall at Rydal School

The Dining Hall at Rydal School is a single-storey building with a basement that houses the kitchens. Designed in the Tudor Gothic style, it resembles the halls of Oxford or Cambridge colleges. The exterior features rusticated coursed and squared rubble with a slate roof. At the north end, there is a gabled entrance porch accessed by steps, and a stair turret at the northwest corner that leads to the former organ loft. The hall consists of 10 bays, with the original hall made up of the first five bays. These bays are divided by pilaster buttresses and each contains a three-light leaded mullioned and transomed window, along with a full-height canted bay window. The building is topped with an embattled parapet and a fleche with an ogival traceried base.

Inside, the hall features stone corbels that support wall posts of braced collar trusses, with additional steel braces in the later southern bays. The dado panelling is in a simple 16th-century style, and there is commemorative stained glass in the eastern bay window.