NE Quadrangle at Howell's School

Comprises two principal ranges (Science Block to NW and parallel Drapers Wing to SE) linked by full-height SW wing, and lower NE range.

NW range: 3-storeyed range in gothic of elegant simplicity: smooth render with stone dressings and steep slate roof with ridge cresting recessed behind parapet. Long range between advanced outer gables, each with full-height canted bay window with mullioned lights. Long range has storeys stepped back, thus breaking up its height when viewed from the NW: ground floor has outer Tudor arched doorways then alternating paired 2 and 5-light mullioned and transomed windows; pierced parapet; first floor has similar windows with continuous hood mould, and plain parapet; recessed attic storey with simple 2-light mullioned windows. 3x5-light mullioned and transomed windows in gable return to NE. SW return has paired 5-light windows then an irregular 2-window range linking to a 4-bay cross wing closing the quadrangle on this SW side: this has small paned timber mullioned and transomed windows, and some sashes.

SE range: remains gothic in character, though with classical simplicity. Rendered with stone dressings and banded slate roof. 2 storeyed over stone basement. Symmetrical elevation to SE in which outer gables flank central 6-window range: composite windows formed as 12-pane sashes with 3 fixed lights above; this arrangement followed in the wider central windows of the tripartite arrangement in the outer gables. Lower 3-window range set-back links this block to the (possibly later) range to the right; a severe neo-Georgian, 3 storeyed, 1-5-1 bays with 8 and 12-pane sash windows; minimal detail of string course over ground floor and very plain cornice. Parapet to flat roof. An apparently contemporary 2-storeyed flat-roofed range links this to the rear of the Science Block, thus forming a quadrangle.

Not inspected on resurvey.