Exterior
An elegant and accomplished composition in an arts and crafts idiom that combines free renaissance and vernacular revival elements with gestures towards art nouveau. Mainly 2 storeys and attics, in a mix of brick, stone, timber-framing and tile-hanging. Steeply pitched tile roofs presenting an array of gables. Deep eaves and verges, plain bargeboards. The building pivots around a corner entrance block, which has doorway across angle in stone shell-hooded canopy carried on console brackets carried on half columns, and paired panel doors. Above the entrance is a two storey canted oriel with balcony at first floor, and continuous band of leaded windows beneath the overhanging eaves. This is clasped by gables on both sides: On the Broad Street elevation by an asymmetrical gabled bay, brick banded with stone to ground floor with triple-transomed window with carved head and scrolled architrave; long uprights in timber framing above, with a shallow oriel window to first floor, and a small window beneath the gable apex. To the right, facing Severn Street, a similar gable with flared decoration added to framing, is itself clasped by a tall banded chimney stack corbelled out above the ground floor, which has two similarly enriched transomed windows, with a commemorative plaque flanked by putti between them. Beyond them, the entrance block blends into a further range with a plain brick façade, a further doorway with simple timber hood, and leaded windows to ground floor. Windows in low bands in mezzanine above, immediately below the projecting tile-hanging of the upper floor, which is pierced by mullioned windows. Paired asymmetrical projecting timber-framed gables to attic storey.
Left hand elevation facing Broad Street is ashlar to ground floor, white-washed plaster to first floor, and has dark, tile-hung advanced gable carried on brackets above. 1st floor has tall canted oriel window, mullioned and transomed, with leaded lights. Narrow 1 light transomed windows in recesses flanking this to flanking recesses. Paired triple transomed windows with carved heads and leaded lights to ground floor, beneath a continuous hood mould. Putti flank commemorative plaque to centre.