Former Presbyterian College

Former college now church premises with accommodation above. Painted stucco, Tudor style, with slate roofs. Five bays with coped stepped-shouldered gables to 4 outer bays and recessed crenellated centre bay with porch. Right 2-bay part is original 1840 building, 2-storey with lancet vents in gables and big square headed chamfered windows to both floors, with C20 3-light glazing with pointed tracery in top-lights. Slightly raised rusticated surrounds and moulded hoodmoulds. Vent in right gable is plain, whereas adjoining one is hoodmoulded, first floor right window has a stepped hoodmould, the others are flat. Centre and left 2 bays are of 1894. Centre has string course under battlements and long porch out to street line with coped shouldered gable, moulded coping and ball finial, and tall doorway with moulding to plinth each side. Doorway is square-headed, moulded and stopped above plinth, with stepped hoodmould over. Segmental-pointed door-frame with glazed spandrels and 2 ogee-traceried top-lights. Double doors. The 2 left bays are similar in general form, but single-storey with thicker detail. Two louvred vents with stepped hoodmoulds, and 2 big 3-light mullion-and-transom timber windows with ogee tracery to top lights, rusticated surrounds and hoodmoulds stepped over small shields. E side wall (main entry of 1840 building) has 2 wall face rendered stacks and a finely detailed ashlar oriel that breaks through the close eaves. Oriel is canted with cusped heads to lights, narrower side lights, battlements and canted hipped lead-clad small roof behind. Moulded square panels below each light, over deep cornice with rounded stepped diminishing mouldings below. Plain doorway beneath with C20 door and 12-pane sash to right.

Within 1894 porch steep flight of steps up to half-glazed double doors into hall with single flight stair. Big panelled newels with tall finials, turned balusters and closed panelled string. Landing gives access to upper floor of 1840 range, from which stair was removed. Encaustic tiles to hall floor, big 6-panel back door. The plain C19 fireplaces to 2 ground floor rooms of 1840 range, now united as chapel, much altered. Some plain 6-panel doors, one to a cellar. Boarded first floor panelled ceilings with moulded ribs and bosses mentioned in 1981. 1894 W room presumably former classroom has ceiling in deep panels and 2 fireplaces with cambered-headed surrounds on N wall. Currently also in use as chapel with altered or new E gallery.