Saint Andrews Infants School

The single-storey building is constructed of stone. The design involves an asymmetrical main frontage of four bays facing onto Old Street. The left-hand bay, which is gabled, is projected forward and fenestrated by a bi-partite mullioned window on the ground floor and by a casement window on the attic floor. There is a gabled porch to the right of the first bay and the other bays are fenestrated with bi-partite mullioned and transomed windows with pointed heads. The extension to the rear schoolroom is in brick, while its roof has visible scissor-braced trusses.

Following significant population growth, largely associated with the town's role as a seaside resort, a local board of health, chaired by Sir Arthur Elton, was appointed in Clevedon in April 1853. In 1894, the local board of health was succeeded by Clevedon Urban District Council. In the 1930s, the council was accommodated in rooms at 12A Hill Road but, its first permanent home was Claremont House on Highdale Road. The house had been commissioned as a summer retreat for the Bristol merchant, George Weare Braikenridge. It was designed in the Gothic Revival style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in the mid-19th century. The council acquired Claremont House, for use as its offices and…