Former Presbyterian College

The building is a former Presbyterian College, now used as church premises with accommodation above. It was constructed in stages, with the right two bays dating to 1840 and the centre and left two bays added in 1894. The exterior is painted stucco in a Tudor style, with slate roofs.

The original 1840 section is two storeys high and has lancet windows in the gables, and large, square-headed, chamfered windows on both floors. These windows have 20th-century 3-light glazing with pointed tracery in the top lights. The window surrounds are slightly raised and rusticated, with moulded hoodmoulds above. One gable vent is plain, while the vent adjacent to it is hoodmoulded; the first-floor window on the right has a stepped hoodmould, whereas the others have flat hoodmoulds.

The centre and left two bays (1894) continue the Tudor style. A string course runs below the crenellated battlements in the centre bay, which includes a projecting porch extending to the street line. The porch has a coped, stepped-shouldered gable with moulded coping and a ball finial above a tall doorway. The doorway features moulding to the plinth on each side and is square-headed, moulded, and stopped above the plinth, with a stepped hoodmould above. It has a segmental-pointed door frame with glazed spandrels and two ogee-traceried top-lights, and a pair of double doors. The two bays to the left are single-storey and have thicker detailing. They feature two louvred vents with stepped hoodmoulds, and two large, 3-light, mullion-and-transom timber windows with ogee tracery in the top lights, rusticated surrounds, and stepped hoodmoulds over small shields.

On the east-facing wall (the main entrance of the 1840 building) there are two wall-face rendered stacks and a finely detailed ashlar oriel window that breaks through the eaves. The oriel is canted with cusped heads to the lights, narrower side lights, battlements, and a canted, hipped, lead-clad roof. Moulded square panels are positioned below each light, over a deep cornice with rounded, stepped diminishing mouldings. A plain doorway is located beneath the oriel, with a 20th-century door and a 12-pane sash window to its right.

The interior of the 1894 porch has a steep flight of steps leading to a half-glazed double door opening into a hall with a single flight of stairs. The staircase has large, panelled newels with tall finials, turned balusters, and a closed panelled string; the landing provides access to the upper floor of the 1840 range, from which the staircase was removed. The hall floor is paved with encaustic tiles, and there is a large 6-panel back door. The two ground floor rooms of the 1840 range, now united as a chapel, have plain 19th-century fireplaces and have been much altered. There are some plain 6-panel doors, including one leading to a cellar. Boarded, first-floor, panelled ceilings with moulded ribs and bosses were noted in 1981. A former classroom from the 1894 addition has a ceiling in deep panels and two fireplaces with cambered-headed surrounds on the north wall. It is currently used as a chapel with an altered or new east gallery.