the list quotes the "architects' journal" of 1968. this says the older section is "significant as an early and rare work by one of the pioneers of the liverpool school of architecture, in the grecian style favoured by the school at that date". of the newer section it says that it is "a brilliant concept, joyously realised, which exploits asymmetrical volumes and ever varying spaces yet achieves unity and also balance with the adjoining victorian façade".