Five

School, 14 Showground Rd

This school has stretcher bonds and iron rod raked joints. The bricks are structural which is highlighted by the brick columns. The bricks are shades of brown and red, most being smooth but some are rough in texture. There are some age defects such as weathering (see the base of the first column) in the bricks as well as the mortar which is slightly discoloured. The brick columns support a concrete balcony ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬which has been discoloured by weathering and perhaps the gutters above as they get full. The second floor of the building was clearly built by bricks not of the same colour as the first floor. It is possible that the builders ran out of that specific type of brick halfway through the construction of the building and had to use one similar but not identical (the top bricks are more golden than those below). Half bricks can be seen along the top of the roof, and there are some openings in the brickwork just below the top of the building to allow power lines to enter the building.