A stone gargoyle guards a moving spiral staircase that takes one up to the entrance to the headmistress's office, a oak door with a brass griffin door knocker. Inside, the walls are covered a portraits of previous headmasters and headmistresses. There is a large desk with clawed feet and a high-backed chair behind it. The entire room has an air of being stuck in the Victorian era and it is obvious that the current inhabitant has done nothing to change that image.