school — McCurtain Street

Detached five-bay two-storey former technical school, dated 1931, now in use as school, having two-bay two and three-storey extension to east and multiple-bay multiple-storey extensions to rear with flat roofs and pitched roofs. Pitched artificial slate roofs to main block, with rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render quoins. Painted full-height smooth render panels framing windows of each bay, and painted smooth render plinth course. Square-headed openings with moulded render surrounds and render sills, windows to ground floor having moulded render brackets to sills, and moulded render cornices. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, with Venetian-style arrangement to first floor of entrance bay, sidelights being four-over-four pane. Venetian-style window opening to upper west gable having moulded render surround, bracketed sill, blind centre flanked by square-headed four-over-four pane timber sliding sash sidelights. Square-headed main entrance door opening with moulded render surround, in turn having render surround, moulded render canopy supported on heavy decorative render consoles and having timber panelled half-glazed doors with small-paned timber-glazed overlights. Flight of concrete steps to entrance. Set back from street with site bounded to front by rendered wall having steel railings. Square-profile rendered piers and decorative steel gate to entrance. Rendered square-profile piers and recessed panels to either end of wall with render lettering.