University Quadrangle, School of Bacteriology

This building was listed Grade II in 2000 with the following description:
'Former School of Bacteriology, now School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape. 1922-3. Designed by Knowles, Oliver & Leeson for Armstrong College. Red brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Raised coped ashlar gables. Two storey plus attic. Main front has five windows. Deep plinth, projecting ashlar cornice with carved corbels. Central bay projects slightly and is topped with curved gable. Central moulded four-centred arched doorway with double panel doors, with ornate ashlar hood mould with five blind tracery arches. Above a tall 9-light cross casement staircase window in a moulded ashlar surround, and above in gable a small fixed light. Either side two six-light cross mullion windows, with above two taller similar windows with four-centred heads. Plain brick parapet with moulded ashlar coping and two hipped roof dormer window on either side. INTERIOR has reconstituted stone staircase with woven cast iron balustrade and oak handrail.'
On the gable end of the building there is a half-length stone figure of French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, gripping a lectern with an open book on it. The statue is covered in algae.