Since 1860 there had been a school for girls where the Salvation Army building now stands in Avon Terrace.

However, this was not without problems as boys crawled through openings in the toilets to tease the girls on the other side.

In 1989, the school building was extended and three dormer windows added on the east side.

[2] The designer was Principal Architect George Temple-Poole, who was sympathetic to the Arts and Crafts movement of William Morris and John Ruskin.

“Several of the architectural details bring associations which are faint, yet nonetheless pervasive - the form of the fleche is not unlike a belltower – the carved wooden tracery on the north gable is reminiscent of a Gothic arch – the dentils below bring to mind a classic cornice……these subtle associations are the stuff of which poetry is made and who but an architect of the calibre of G T Poole, with his rich store of cultural experience from the Old World could embellish his buildings with such charmingly evocative details?”.