Exterior
Symmetrical single-storey school with bold classical detail, constructed of red brick with brick and sandstone dressings, under slate roofs with tall brick stacks. There are several component parts: a U-shaped range to front consisting of a central assembly hall flanked by advanced gabled bays containing classrooms; a long range to rear containing 6 classrooms; and against the ends of the front range, lower wings with entrances and cloakrooms. Good detail including wide boarded eaves and plain barge boards; tall windows with original small-pane glazing, mainly fixed lights over horned sashes, with flat arched heads of gauged brickwork and stone sills.
The front range, facing the playground, has a tall stepped gable to centre with sandstone parapets and ball finial, under which is a large round-arched window with small-pane glazing, a tall fluted keystone and sandstone hoodmould. This is flanked by pairs of cross-windows with brick aprons, and divided by shallow brick buttresses with scrolled sandstone caps. Advanced gabled bays to each side have raised banded quoins of brick and sandstone, modillion eaves and an open triangular pediment. Beneath each pediment is a tall central window, a fixed light over a 16-pane sash with fluted keystone, over which is a round sandstone hoodmould, flanked by tall narrow lights. Each gable has a decorative frieze of black brickwork, above which is an oculus with small-pane glazing. Lateral stacks to L-hand returns, one to W gabled bay, and 2 to E gabled bay. The lower cloakroom wings have canted bays to each gable end with continuous parapets, each face with a 12-pane horned sash, above which is a sandstone diamond tablet. Fronts of wings are now partly obscured by the flat-roofed late-C20 toilet blocks, but some original 12-pane sashes and oculi are retained. To the S sides of the gable ends, and of continuous brickwork, are the entrances, for boys to W end, and girls and infants to E end. The doorways have moulded brick and sandstone jambs and substantial keyed sandstone lintels with segmental heads; each lintel bears a wreath, inside which is 'boys' and 'girls & infants' in relief. Inset double panelled half-glazed doors. Above the entrances are continuous parapets with sandstone copings. Original cast iron rainwater goods, the hoppers dated '1909'. To the R of the W entrance is a later flat-roofed classroom with large metal-framed windows. The rear range, facing the road, contains 6 classrooms, each with a lateral brick stack (the central pair have lost their moulded caps). Each classroom has 3 tall windows, a central 16-pane sash with fixed light over, flanked by narrower lights. A fire-escape doorway has been inserted to the far L. The gable ends have an oculus to the apex, the E end with a window offset to R, containing a fixed light over 12-pane sash.