Pevsner calls this building the Physics Laboratory and describes it as follows, "Stone dressings, transomed windows and an elaborate entrance."

The building was designed by the architecxt J. W. Beaumont and it was built in 1900.  Today it is called the Rutherford Laboratory in honour of Ernest Rutherford, who won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908 for, "his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances".