Main Building (North & South) at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls

Built of squared red-brown sandstone rubble, with Bath stone dressings and plain tiled roof with stone chimneys. Largely symmetrical Tudor/Jacobean style. The main front faces south and has two-and-a-half storeys. Nine bays with mullion-and-transom windows; the second, central and eighth bays are advanced. The ground floor windows are 4-light with a king mullion except for 3-light ones in bays 1 and 9. The first floor the same except for a 3-light one over the entrance and 2-light ones in bays 1 and 9. The central bay has a four storey gabled tower with octagonal buttresses, 4-centred doorway with relief spandrels, 3-light window above and 2-light above that, the top level has a 3-light window with the Haberdashers' arms obscuring the lower lights, further heraldic shield in the gable above and gargoyles to the parapet. Two crow-stepped gabled wall dormers to each side of tower each with a 4-light king mullion window; four large groups of octagonal shafted stone chimneys, two either side. To the right a stepped back, three-storey block with two crow-stepped gables links with the main building via a recessed section with doorway. Four bays with paired single light windows, the gabled section is set forward. The west return has a crow-step gable, and further shaped gable to rear. Rear elevation in simplified version of same style with projecting bays, single and 2-light windows and a multi-gabled roofline. At right angles, dining hall block with four large flat-topped dormers (modern glazing to east, and modern extension to east). Then attached two storey service block in same style with two gables facing east, these have 4-light mullion-and-transom windows on the upper floor.

Interiors seen were entrance, main stair, board room and dining hall, all plain. The dining hall has a wide span 4-bay roof with traceried trusses. Large ties supported on brackets, vertical struts to main rafters, arch braced centre.