It features pepper-pot turrets and a tower with corbelled-out bartizans and a cap-house which is said to be reminiscent of a Highland Croft House.

[2] It is home to the administrative offices of the university's Accommodation Services, as well as having function suites which are used for conferences and other meetings.

Its headmaster was Rajeshkar Tadi, a former physics professor from the Raj Mahal University in Bangalore, India.

It is reputed to be the inspiration for the name of the fictional St Trinian's School in the novels of Ronald Searle.

[1] During the Second World War, it became an Air Raid Precautions and Home Guard headquarters.