It is now a Grade II* listed building, having been added in 1950.

[3] In 1990, after just under 250 years, the junior school followed the secondary school's relocation to a new site on North Road at the southeastern edge of the city around 25 years earlier.

In 1997, an application to turn the building into a public house by Samuel Smith Old Brewery was refused,[4] although it still owns the property.

[7] Proposals to use it as a temporary shelter for the homeless were rejected in 2018, by the brewery, claiming that work would be "commencing very soon".

[9] The building, which stands on the former site of the Black Swann Inn,[10] is two storeys with four dormers and five sash windows.