Gymnasium and Attached Gates, Repton School England, UK

Listed Building Description

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PARISH OF REPTON WILLINGDON ROAD SK 30/3127 SK 30/3126 6/99 (West Side) Gymnasium and Attached Gates, Repton School II

Gymnasium. 1907 by Forsyth & Maule with Colonel Robert Edis. Red brick with plain tile half hipped roof and one brick gable stack. Single storey over a basement. South elevation articulated by four buttresses with two set-offs with dentils below. Ground floor entrance has a round-arched doorway with double doors and Diocletian windows over, flanked by cross windows with segmental relieving arches. Two similar windows above, flanking a similar but larger mullioned and transomed window. The north elevation also has four buttresses. The basement has a segmental arched doorway to the right, two single light windows and a 2-light window. The ground floor has three tall transomed windows, the centre one of 2-lights. Circular louvred ventilator above. West and east elevations of nine bays, divided by buttresses with two set-offs. The ground floor has 2-light windows with segmental relieving arches and the first floor has cross windows with flat heads, except in the last two bays to the south, which differ slightly on each elevation. Four hipped roof dormers to east and west. Low wall attached at south east corner and linked to four rusticated brick gate piers with moulded stone caps. Wrought iron gates and railings. The roof of the gymnasium is supported by arched steel girder trusses.

Listing NGR: SK3013527154